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SubjectRe: unicode (char as abstract data type)
alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)  wrote on 18.04.98 in <m0yQL1S-000aNjC@the-village.bc.nu>:

> > UTF-8 is also dead.
>
> Nope. UTF8 is alive and well. Its also the only encoding validly usable for
> unix file naming where the / and 0 character rules are laid down by POSIX
> and the single unix specification. UTF8 is also the encoding proposed in
> the draft multilingual DNS extensions

See RFC 2277: nearly all future RFCs *MUST* do UTF-8.


MfG Kai

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