From: Peter H. Coffin (hellsop_at_ninehells.com)
Date: Thu Aug 19 2004 - 19:09:03 PDT
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 09:27:12PM -0400, Dan Mills wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 00:48:33 +0200, Sasa <sasa.radojcic_at_xs4all.nl>
> wrote:
>
> > Unicode is the successor to ASCII. Where ASCII characters use 1
> > byte to represent a character and therefore have a maximum of 256
> > possible characters (8 bits, each with 2 possibilities) Unicode
> > is based on a 2-byte representation, which will give you 65.356
> > possibilities (16
>
> Actually, Unicode is just a catalog. What you are thinking of is
> (probably) UTF-16, a 16-bit encoding scheme for Unicode. It is not
> the only one, there is also UTF-8 for example, which is variable-witdh
> and is actually the same as ASCII for the simple set.
The one he's referring to is UCS-2, which is also what the Newt uses
internally. UTF-16 is a variable-width superset of UCS-2.
Gah. Now I'm thinking about work again, dammit.
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