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We support UTF-8 but we anticipates supporting UTF-16 for symbol sets and there is nothing in our spec that would prevent this.
This statement is unclear. UTF-8 and UTF-16 are character encoding forms of the Unicode character set. That is, they are different ways of turning characters into bytes in the memory of a computer. Can you clarify what you mean by UTF-16 for symbol sets here? Do you mean "Unicode code points" or "private use characters" perhaps?
We are not recommending one symbol set or another, we are just providing the translation. We allow translation to other character sets that may be represented by UTF-8, UTF-16, private use characters or even actual images.
My comment here is probably difficult to follow because it hinges on details of Unicode jargon. UTF-8 and UTF-16 turn out to be the names of character encodings, as opposed to what you appear to mean (which is properly termed a "character set"). In this case what you probably mean is that your character set is Unicode--which is fundamentally a good thing. You can probably close this issue as a no-op: I mainly opened it in case your TF wants to discuss how to refer to character encodings.
One place to look for a basic explanation of some of the above jargon is here:
(From your self-review in #133)
@becka11y suggested in reply:
My comment here is probably difficult to follow because it hinges on details of Unicode jargon.
UTF-8
andUTF-16
turn out to be the names of character encodings, as opposed to what you appear to mean (which is properly termed a "character set"). In this case what you probably mean is that your character set is Unicode--which is fundamentally a good thing. You can probably close this issue as a no-op: I mainly opened it in case your TF wants to discuss how to refer to character encodings.One place to look for a basic explanation of some of the above jargon is here:
https://www.w3.org/International/articles/definitions-characters/
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