not just one RFC this month, but RFC 4042 also. this one introduces two new encoding formats of Unicode, called UTF-9 and UTF-18, for machines with a 9-bit byte.
kind of amusing but also a bit of a ripoff of ATF-8.
'tis a standard for something entirely pointless. also, one of the code examples is in a bizarre programming language (PDP-10 assembly, not used for several decades really). so yes. but would have been funnier had ATF-8 not already parodied UTF-8 in a much more amusing (and harder to explain) way.
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Date: 2005-04-05 07:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-05 08:02 am (UTC)