Re: revised "generic syntax" internet draft

["Martin J. Duerst" <[e-mail]>]

On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, Chris Newman wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, John C Klensin wrote:

[About length problems with UTF-8.]

> UTF-8 requires 2 octets to encode characters from the 8859-1 set which
> normally take 1 octet.  UTF-8 requires 3 octets to encode ideographic
> characters from UCS-2 which normally require 2 octets.  So
> western Europeans take a worse storage hit from UTF-8 than ideographic
> languages do.

This is not exactly true. Western European languages contain many
characters from ASCII, and only occasionally a character that needs
two bytes in UTF-8. But anyway, I think we agree that the size
of UTF-8 is not really an issue.

Regards,	Martin.