Charset name: CESU-8

(last updated 2002-04-29)

Charset aliases: csCESU-8

Suitability for use in MIME text: No

Published specification(s):
   Unicode Technical Report #26
   "Compatibility Encoding Scheme for UTF-16: 8-bit (CESU-8)"
   http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr26

ISO 10646 equivalency table: See specification.

Additional information:
 CESU-8 is an 8-bit Compatibility Encoding Scheme for UTF-16 (CESU) that
 is intended for internal use within systems processing Unicode in order
 to provide an ASCII-compatible 8-bit encoding that is similar to UTF-8 
 but preserves UTF-16 binary collation. Data encoded in CESU-8 should only
 be exchanged when it is labeled as such in a higher-level protocol or
 is agreed upon in an API definition.  CESU-8 is not intended nor
 recommended for open interchange.

Person & email address to contact for further information:
 Toby Phipps
 tphipps&peoplesoft.com

 Jianping Yang
 jianping.yang&oracle.com

 Nobuyoshi Mori
 nobuyoshi.mori&sap.com

Intended usage: LIMITED USE