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Re: [SG16] format.string.std references to "Unicode encoding" unclear

From: Corentin Jabot <corentinjabot_at_[hidden]>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2020 10:57:09 +0100
On Wed, 26 Feb 2020 at 10:34, Lyberta via SG16 <sg16_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

> Corentin Jabot via SG16:
> >
> That would exclude UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32 because they can't encode
> surrogates.
>

Right!

Take 2:
Any encoding scheme capable of encoding any UCS scalar value - where a UCS
scalar value is any UCS codepoint except surrogate code points and a
codepoint is tautologically any value in the UCS codespace (U+0 - U+10FFFF)
(all three terms are defined in ISO/IEC 10646)



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Received on 2020-02-26 04:00:03