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Re: UCS-2BE
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Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
Re: UCS-2BE |
Date: |
Sat, 02 Sep 2006 02:45:33 +0300 |
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Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> Ah! So here we can see the term "UCS-2BE" as CES. But how
> it was defined? (I don't have Unicode 1.1)
You can buy the specification for 114 Swiss francs ;-)
http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/CatalogueDetailPage.CatalogueDetail?CSNUMBER=39921
> It seems that UCS-2BE is not a mis-label of UTF-16BE, then,
> it seems that treating it as a subset (not using surrogate
> pair) of UTF-16BE (as done in iconv) is the right thing.
I have the same understanding.
> I'll try to implement it (and others) in emacs-unicode-2.
Is it reasonable to use the iconv library in Emacs (to not reimplement
its encodings)?
> By the way, why do people want such many variants... sigh...
There are still some standards (e.g. in the telecom industry)
that are based on the old encodings. I understood so that UCS-2 is
an obsolete encoding and will be replaced gradually by UTF-16.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/