Re: UCS-2BE

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> writes:

>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-16#UCS-2
> >
> > Thank you, but it says nothing about "UCS-2BE".

> "UTF-16 is often mislabeled UCS-2."

> Otherwise UCS-2 is just UTF-16 without surrogates.

Yes, I know that.  But it doesn't necessarily mean that
"UTF-16BE is opten mislabeled UCS-2BE".  As I've never seen
"UCS-2BE", I'd like to confirm what it exactly means.

> See <http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.0.0/appC.pdf>.

It says nothing about "UCS-2BE", either.

If UCS-2BE is a mislabel of UTF-16BE, UCS-2BE can simply be
an alias of UTF16-BE.  If UCS-2BE is a BMP subset of
UTF-16BE, UCS2-BE should be implemented differently from
UTF-16BE (at least, we should not select it by
select-safe-conding-system on saving a buffer that contains
non-BMP characters).

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Kenichi Handa
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