UTF-18 - Revision history

Dan Tobias at 02:37, 21 May 2019

2019-05-21T02:37:13Z

Effect2: "UTF-8" -> UTF-9

2019-04-23T17:23:06Z

"UTF-8" -> UTF-9

Effect2: Grammar/wording fix

2019-04-22T22:15:58Z

Grammar/wording fix

Effect2: Grammatical fix

2019-04-22T18:01:15Z

Grammatical fix

Effect2: A slightly modified duplicate of the last one

2019-04-22T01:38:35Z

A slightly modified duplicate of the last one

New page

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|subcat=Character encoding
|released=2005
}}

'''UTF-18''' is a [[Unicode]] [[Character Encodings|character encodings]] introduced by the standards document RFC 4042 in 2005. UTF-18 and its sibling [[UTF-8]] allow for efficient coding of Unicode characters on machines based on 36-bit words, using 18 and 9 bits per code point, respectively. Although the encoding are completely valid in a technical sense, they are largely humorous, as virtually all computers designed after the early-mid 1980s use word sizes of powers of two, making these encodings largely obsolete.

== Links ==
* [https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4042 RFC 4042]
* [[Wikipedia:April Fools' Day Request for Comments#2005]]: Very short Wikipedia entry on RFC 4042

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-'''UTF-18''' is a [[Unicode]] [[Character Encodings|character encoding]] introduced by the standards document RFC 4042 in 2005. UTF-18 and its sibling [[UTF-8]] allow for efficient coding of Unicode characters on machines based on 36-bit words, using 18 and 9 bits per code point, respectively. Although they are completely valid in a technical sense, they are largely humorous, as virtually all computers designed after the early-mid 1980s use word sizes of powers of two, making these encodings largely obsolete.
+'''UTF-18''' is a [[Unicode]] [[Character Encodings|character encoding]] introduced by the standards document RFC 4042 in 2005. UTF-18 and its sibling [[UTF-9]] allow for efficient coding of Unicode characters on machines based on 36-bit words, using 18 and 9 bits per code point, respectively. Although they are completely valid in a technical sense, they are largely humorous, as virtually all computers designed after the early-mid 1980s use word sizes of powers of two, making these encodings largely obsolete.
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-'''UTF-18''' is a [[Unicode]] [[Character Encodings|character encoding]] introduced by the standards document RFC 4042 in 2005. UTF-18 and its sibling [[UTF-8]] allow for efficient coding of Unicode characters on machines based on 36-bit words, using 18 and 9 bits per code point, respectively. Although the encoding are completely valid in a technical sense, they are largely humorous, as virtually all computers designed after the early-mid 1980s use word sizes of powers of two, making these encodings largely obsolete.
+'''UTF-18''' is a [[Unicode]] [[Character Encodings|character encoding]] introduced by the standards document RFC 4042 in 2005. UTF-18 and its sibling [[UTF-8]] allow for efficient coding of Unicode characters on machines based on 36-bit words, using 18 and 9 bits per code point, respectively. Although they are completely valid in a technical sense, they are largely humorous, as virtually all computers designed after the early-mid 1980s use word sizes of powers of two, making these encodings largely obsolete.
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 |formattype=electronic
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 |released=2005
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