From: Juergen Strobel <strobel@...>
Date: 2006-06-17T19:36:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Unicode roadmap?

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On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 06:05:20PM +0900, Paul Battley wrote:
> On 17/06/06, Juergen Strobel <strobel@secure.at> wrote:
> >I don't care who is technically correct here, that's not the point.
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> On the contrary: it's exactly the point in a technical discussion of
> the number of bytes taken by various encodings.

The discussion is about a Unicode Roadmap for Ruby. The number of
bytes per UTF-8 encoded character is tangential to this.

> >But when working on Unicode support for Ruby, I think it would be best
> >to focus on the new and current standard, before worrying if we should
> >support obsoleted RFCs.
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> No one suggested supporting obsolete RFCs. I compared the obsolete and
> current RFCs precisely so that everyone could get a clearer idea of
> what constitutes the current state of UTF-8 - which is what we should
> support. I hope you agree that they are more reliable sources for
> technical information than Wikipedia.
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> Paul.
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If you can point to an official and *current* standard which proves me
false an my statement of 1-4 bytes per plain UTF-8 encoded character,
I'll concede my point. Please don't bring in combining characters,
you know what I mean by now. If you like, s/character/code point/g.

Merely pointing to a concise and actually well written Wikipedia
article with a nice summary is way more informative than using
obsoleted RFCs to reinforce one's own argument. Besides, we all know
how relyable Wikipedia is. End of discussion from my side.

J=FCrgen

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