On Dec 11, 2006, at 10:20 , Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
My question was what kind of encoding other than UTF-8 has a chracteristic such as: "combination characters opens the possibility of multiple different byte sequences mapping to the same code point"
No idea; perhaps only UTF-8. What I said was that variable-width encodings don't provide a 1:1 mapping of logical characters to single bytes; combination characters is a feature of Unicode.
Alexander.