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From: John Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
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Subject: Re: architectural goals, Byte Addressability And Beyond
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2024 19:43:18 -0000 (UTC)
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According to Anton Ertl <anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at>:
>Bottom line: Code point conversion instructions like CU14 solve a
>problem that people imagine who have no experience working with UTF-8.

The original instructions were CU12 and CU21 which convert between
UTF-8 and UTF-16. That really is useful, e.g., read a file of UTF-8
into a program in Java or Javascript which uses UTF-16. I agree the
UTF-32 versions added in zseries are less likely to be useful.

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