[jcifs] Character Set discussions

Caldarale, Charles R Chuck.Caldarale at UNISYS.com
Sat Feb 8 06:52:41 EST 2003


> From: Glass, Eric [mailto:eric.glass at capitalone.com]
> Subject: RE: [jcifs] Character Set discussions
>
> Yes.  The recommendation from RFC 2718 is to interpret the escapes as
> characters from the UTF-8 character set.

Whoops. Now I'm confused. I thought UTF-8 was just a scheme to handle
characters with values larger than 0x7F (up to 32 bits), not a character
set.

Is there an underlying presumption in RFC 2718 that everyone is using
Unicode?

 - Chuck


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