RE: Invalid UTF-8 strings

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From: Yoder, Alan (agy@netapp.com)
Date: 12/11/01-04:20:49 PM Z 

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From: "Yoder, Alan" <agy@netapp.com>
Subject: RE: Invalid UTF-8 strings
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 14:20:49 -0800

 
> But why is it a mistake?  Is there someone out there who needs
> today, or will in the foreseeable future have a need for 32-bit
> characters?  Are any such characters defined by anybody?  

   What about the UCS4 32-bit Unicode standards
being pushed by various Oriental organizations?
A google of ucs4 reveals that the Sather programming
language even has native support for this data
type, so someone somewhere is taking it seriously.

;>

Alan

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Alan G. Yoder                                    agy@netapp.com
Network Appliance, Inc.                           
Sunnyvale, CA                                      408-822-6919
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