a simple unicode question
Lie Ryan
lie.1296 at gmail.com
Tue Oct 27 06:21:11 EDT 2009
Chris Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:35:11PM EDT, Nobody wrote:
>
> [..]
>
>> Characters outside the 16-bit range aren't supported on all builds.
>> They won't be supported on most Windows builds, as Windows uses 16-bit
>> Unicode extensively:
>
> I knew nothing about UTF-16 & friends before this thread.
>
> Best part of Unicode is that there are multiple encodings, right? ;-)
No, the best part about Unicode is there is no encoding!
Unicode does not define any encoding; what it defines is code-points for
characters which is not related to how characters are encoded in files
or network transmission.
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