Changing filenames from Greeklish => Greek (subprocess complain)
Νικόλαος Κούρας
nikos.gr33k at gmail.com
Sun Jun 9 05:20:59 EDT 2013
Τη Κυριακή, 9 Ιουνίου 2013 12:12:36 μ.μ. UTC+3, ο χρήστης Cameron Simpson έγραψε:
> On 09Jun2013 02:00, =?utf-8?B?zp3Or866zr/PgiDOk866z4EzM866?= <nikos.gr33k at gmail.com> wrote:
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> | Steven wrote:
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> | >> Since 1 byte can hold up to 256 chars, why not utf-8 use 1-byte for
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> | >> values up to 256?
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> | >Because then how do you tell when you need one byte, and when you need
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> | >two? If you read two bytes, and see 0x4C 0xFA, does that mean two
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> | >characters, with ordinal values 0x4C and 0xFA, or one character with
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> | >ordinal value 0x4CFA?
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> | I mean utf-8 could use 1 byte for storing the 1st 256 characters. I meant up to 256, not above 256.
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> Then it would not be UTF-8. UTF-8 will encode an Unicode codepoint. Your >suggestion will not.
I dont follow.
> | >> UTF-8 and UTF-16 and UTF-32
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> | >> I though the number beside of UTF- was to declare how many bits the
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> | >> character set was using to store a character into the hdd, no?
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> | >Not exactly, but close. UTF-32 is completely 32-bit (4 byte) values.
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> | >UTF-16 mostly uses 16-bit values, but sometimes it combines two 16-bit
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> | >values to make a surrogate pair.
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> | A surrogate pair is like itting for example Ctrl-A, which means is a combination character that consists of 2 different characters?
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> | Is this what a surrogate is? a pari of 2 chars?
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> Essentially. The combination represents a code point.
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> | >UTF-8 uses 8-bit values, but sometimes
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> | >it combines two, three or four of them to represent a single code-point.
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> | 'a' to be utf8 encoded needs 1 byte to be stored ? (since ordinal = 65)
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> | 'α΄' to be utf8 encoded needs 2 bytes to be stored ? (since ordinal is > 127 )
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> | 'a chinese ideogramm' to be utf8 encoded needs 4 byte to be stored ? (since ordinal > 65000 )
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> | The amount of bytes needed to store a character solely depends on the character's ordinal value in the Unicode table?
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> Essentially. You can read up on the exact process in Wikipedia or the Unicode Standard.
When you say essentially means you agree with my statements?
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