Re: Requesting a revision of RFC3023

At 9:08 PM +0900 9/21/03, MURATA Makoto wrote:

>UTF-8 has its own technical problems (the Unicode signature, representation
>of non-BMP characters, etc.).

By Unicode signature, I'm guessing you mean the BOM? That problem 
seems to have been easily dealt with by simply deciding to allow it 
in UTF-8. It doesn't appear to have caused any problems in practice 
today.

I don't know what you problems you refer to with "representation of 
non-BMP characters". UTF-8 precisely specifies how these characters 
are represented. There's no issue here. Did you mean something else?

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