Sujet : Re: iconv "versions"
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : comp.os.linux.advocacyDate : 18. Mar 2024, 01:02:03
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On Sun, 17 Mar 2024 15:12:15 -0700 (Seattle), Relf wrote:
Microsoft was using UTF-8 back in 1989, as I recall.
A little bit difficult, considering it wasn’t created until 1992
<
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/utf-8-history.txt>.
What Microsoft was using was the original “UCS-2” (16-bit) Unicode, which
the Unicode Consortium had led everyone to believe would remain a fixed-
length code forever.
Then they decided that, on second thoughts, they would allow up to 20-
something bits (“UCS-4”), so the original 16-bit code became that
monstrosity known as “UTF-16”. Which Windows and Java (and maybe one or
two other things that adopted Unicode at just the wrong time) have been
saddled with ever since.
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