Following up on a discussion in today's NDRSC call, here's some
background with regard to the decision by the ISO - IEC - ITU -
UN/ECE Memorandum of Understanding Electronic Business Management
Group to standarize on UTF-8.
Resolution 01/08 (MoU/MG/01 N 83) adopted 2001-11-8/9:
The MoU/MG recommends that all e-business standards generated
by member organisations should support the UTF-8 encoding
defined in ISO 10646 as the sole encoding for information
exchange. Member organisations are invited to inform the MoU/MG
by end February 2002 of any business or technical barriers to
implementation of this recommendation.