Re: Comments on: "Character Set" Considered Harmful

Bob Jung (bobj@netscape.com)
Thu, 27 Apr 95 18:06:59 EDT

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At 10:27 PM 4/26/95, Gavin Nicol wrote:
>...
>>Since Unicode is not really being used today in HTML, couldn't we
>>stipulate that Unicode HTML use UTF8 encoding?
>
>No. I for one, would like to use UCS-2.

Why? Please elaborate on the advantages of UCS-2 and the disadvantages of UTF8.

-Bob

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