> Do note the RFC publication date.

Indeed, likely an homage to other pioneering RFCs published on the same
date.

Cheers,
Jeremy


On Mon, Jan 27, 2025 at 3:00 PM Andrey Semashev via Std-Proposals <
std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> 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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