File System Safe UCS Transformation Format (UTF-8)

This specification addresses the problem of the handling of the Universal Character Set (UCS) defined in ISO/IEC 10646-1 by historical operating systems and utilities. In particular, it defines how data may be represented within the file system by specifying a UCS Transformation Format that is 'file-system-safe' compatible with UNIX systems, and supports multi-lingual text in a single encoding. This Transformation Format was developed by the Joint Internationalisation Group (JIG) and subsequently adopted by ISO, under the designation UTF-8, as a normative Annex to ISO/IEC 10646-1.

Bibliographic Details

Technical Standards

Catalog number C501
ISBN 1-85912-082-2
Apr 1995

22 pages. height 28 cm. 97 grams.

Was P316 File System Safe UCS Transformation Format (FSS-UTF) 15/06/1993

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