Do note the RFC publication date.

On 1/27/25 21:09, Jeremy Rifkin via Std-Proposals wrote:
> It should be top priority for WG21 to support RFC4042. I hope SG16 will
> consider this.
>
> Cheers,
> Jeremy
>
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2025 at 12:06 Thiago Macieira via Std-Proposals <std-
> proposals_at_[hidden] <mailto:std-proposals_at_[hidden]>> wrote:
>
> On Monday 27 January 2025 04:56:29 Pacific Standard Time Bo Persson
> via Std-
> Proposals wrote:
> > I envision something like this - Unisys 36-bit mainframes
> >
> > https://stackoverflow.com/a/6972551/17398063 <https://
> stackoverflow.com/a/6972551/17398063>
> >
> > The 36-bit int had an alignment of 1, because addresses were
> assigned to
> > words. It still stored 4 chars per word, and had part-word
> instructions
> > to select those. That part-word info had to be stored somewhere.
>
> 9-bit chars, which led to UTF-9 and UTF-18.
> https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4042.txt <https://www.ietf.org/rfc/
> rfc4042.txt>
>
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