UTF-8 is a brilliant design

Re:UTF-8 is a brilliant design by syncsynchalt on Friday September 12, 2025 @06:34PM (#45227546)

UTF-7 is/was mostly for email, which is not an 8-bit clean transport. It is obsolete and can't encode supplemental planes (except via surrogate pairs, which were meant for UTF-16).

There is also UTF-9, from an April Fools RFC, meant for use on hosts with 36-bit words such as the PDP-10.

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Re:UTF-8 is a brilliant design by syncsynchalt on Friday September 12, 2025 @09:10PM (#45228447)

I meant to specify, the aim of UTF-7 is better performed by using UTF-8 with `Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable`

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