Map Development Area (MDA)
Location:
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misc
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encoding
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utf-8
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Comment:
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byte-order independent (no little/big endian problems)
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Comment:
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originated from Plan 9 operating system
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Comment:
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backwards compatible with ASCII -- first 127 characters are encoded like ASCII -- those with bit 8 set are part of a sequence of bytes representing a single character -- variable length -- encodes Unicode characters as 1 to 6 bytes (only 4 with the currently defined characters)
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