Re: vietnamese

"Maiorana, Jason" wrote on 2002-05-24 15:39 UTC:
> its dissapointing that the viet-gov chose a 2-btye encoding
> in their specification over UTF-8, somewhat precluding users
> of the official encoding from using unicode outside the BMP
> without ending up in the utf-16 quagmire.

I'd read the standard really just as the definition of a (very minimal)
Unicode subset. For a choice of possible byte sequence encodings, I'd
read Unicode and ISO 10646-1 directly.

Markus

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