unicode mail list archeology
Luuk
luuk at invalid.lan
Sat Apr 20 06:47:12 EDT 2019
On 20-4-2019 11:26, wxjmfauth at gmail.com wrote:
> http://unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/Archives-Old/UML018/0594.html
>
[quoot]
> It is simple to make a compacter version of UTF-8 using the base
> 256 character codes were possible (comacter for many languages).
No. If you think otherwise, you have completely misunderstood what UTF-8
is all about. Please read the section "What is UTF-8?" in
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html
carefully then you will see, why a base256 transfer encoding lacks
essential properties that make UTF-8 so damn useful.
[/quoot]
I must be one of the persons who do not understand what base256 transfer
encoding means.
UTF-8 is, in bytes, just a sequence of 8 bit things, why can it not be
transferred using a bas256 transfer encoding?
$ echo "just my € 0.02 cents" | hexdump -C
6a 75 73 74 20 6d 79 20 e2 82 ac 20 30 2e 30 32 20 63 65 6e 74 73 0a
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Luuk
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