Re: Kernel & Unicode

Dima Maloff (maloff@tts.magadan.su)
Thu, 28 Aug 1997 14:36:40 +1200 (GSD)


According to Albert Cahalan:
>
> What about large character sets? You must use Unicode. For all the
> normal applications, the normal system calls _must_ remain _pure_
> 8-bit for the next 30 years. Sorry, UTF-8 and BIG5 both fail.
>

UTF-8 is the way to store UNICODE in 8-bit (char *) strings. So UTF-8
will work just fine with system calls.

-- 
Dima Maloff