Re: UCS-2BE

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Jason Rumney <address@hidden> writes:

> Juri Linkov wrote:
> > Maybe I'm missing it, but I don't see the coding UCS-2BE supported
> > by Emacs (e.g. in a list of `describe-coding-system').  Is this true?
> > If yes, why not to support it?
> >   
> Can Emacs (22) represent any of the characters that exist in UTF-16 but 
> not UCS-2? If not, then it can just be an alias.

To my understanding, UCS-2 and UCS-4 are the names of
Character Encoding Form (CEF), not Character Encoding Scheme
(CES), and as CEF doesn't include byte serialization
mechanism, it can't be a coding system.  Only CES (UTF-XXX)
can be a coding system.

But, I don't know the definition of UCS-2BE.  Is it just a
limited UTF-16BE (limited to BMP)?  Where is it defined
officially?

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Kenichi Handa
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