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Re: [Groff] mom : unicode in .INCLUDE'd files
From: |
John Gardner |
Subject: |
Re: [Groff] mom : unicode in .INCLUDE'd files |
Date: |
Sun, 23 Jul 2017 22:45:23 +1000 |
Strange, I remember reading that the extra storage space required for
regular 7-bit characters is what crippled the adoption of Unicode. Prior to
UTF-8, I mean...
I wonder if the serviette (napkin) which Ken Thompson plotted UTF-8 on has
a home in the MIT museum somewhere... =)
On 23 July 2017 at 22:39, Ralph Corderoy <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> > What's the rationale for choosing UTF-16 in the first place?
>
> History. Microsoft plumped for UCS-2, both UCS-2BE and UCS-2LE I think.
> That's a fixed width; two bytes per rune. When that became
> insufficient, UTF-16 was a backwards-compatible upgrade AIUI.
>
> --
> Cheers, Ralph.
> https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy
>
>
- Re: [Groff] mom : unicode in .INCLUDE'd files, (continued)
- Re: [Groff] mom : unicode in .INCLUDE'd files, Ralph Corderoy, 2017/07/21
- Re: [Groff] mom : unicode in .INCLUDE'd files, Peter Schaffter, 2017/07/21
- Re: [Groff] mom : unicode in .INCLUDE'd files, Ralph Corderoy, 2017/07/21
- Re: [Groff] mom : unicode in .INCLUDE'd files, Peter Schaffter, 2017/07/21
- Re: [Groff] mom : unicode in .INCLUDE'd files, Ralph Corderoy, 2017/07/22
- Re: [Groff] mom : unicode in .INCLUDE'd files, Keith Marshall, 2017/07/22
- Re: [Groff] mom : unicode in .INCLUDE'd files, Ralph Corderoy, 2017/07/23
- Re: [Groff] mom : unicode in .INCLUDE'd files, Mike Bianchi, 2017/07/23
- Re: [Groff] mom : unicode in .INCLUDE'd files, John Gardner, 2017/07/23
- Re: [Groff] mom : unicode in .INCLUDE'd files, Ralph Corderoy, 2017/07/23
- Re: [Groff] mom : unicode in .INCLUDE'd files,
John Gardner <=
- Re: [Groff] mom : unicode in .INCLUDE'd files, Keith Marshall, 2017/07/23
- Re: [Groff] mom : unicode in .INCLUDE'd files, E. Hoffmann, 2017/07/22
- Re: [Groff] mom : unicode in .INCLUDE'd files, Mike Bianchi, 2017/07/22
- Re: [Groff] mom : unicode in .INCLUDE'd files, Mike Bianchi, 2017/07/22
- Re: [Groff] mom : unicode in .INCLUDE'd files, Steffen Nurpmeso, 2017/07/22
- Re: [Groff] mom : unicode in .INCLUDE'd files, Ralph Corderoy, 2017/07/23
- Re: [Groff] mom : unicode in .INCLUDE'd files, E. Hoffmann, 2017/07/23
- Re: [Groff] mom : unicode in .INCLUDE'd files, Dale Snell, 2017/07/23
- Re: [Groff] mom : unicode in .INCLUDE'd files SOLVED, E. Hoffmann, 2017/07/23
- Re: [Groff] mom : unicode in .INCLUDE'd files SOLVED, Dale Snell, 2017/07/23