Title		File System Safe UCS Transformation Format (UTF-8)
Reference		X/Open C501
Common name		FSS-UTF
Year of Publication		1995
Status		Adopted
Short Description		Defines how multi-lingual text can be represented in a way which is 'file-system-safe'.
Service category		International Operation Services
Service		Character Sets and Data Representation
Type		The Open Group Technical Standard
Description		This specification addresses the problem of the handling of the Universal Character Set (UCS) defined in ISO/IEC 10646-1 by historical operating systems and utilities. In particular, it defines how data may be represented within the file system by specifying a UCS Transformation Format that is 'file-system-safe' compatible with UNIX systems, and supports multi-lingual text in a single encoding. This Transformation Format was developed by the Joint Internationalization Group (JIG) and subsequently adopted by ISO, under the designation UTF-8, as a normative Annex to ISO/IEC 10646-1. An equivalent definition is contained in IETF RFC 2044.
Usage
See also		REC_CSS1
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