[XML-SIG] utf-16 versus UCS-2

[Florent Guillaume]

<t.c.jones@att.net> wrote:
> I noted in the earlier thread the distiction between UTF-
> 16 and double byte unicode.  Does this really mean that 
> utf-8 is just put, byte x byte, into a short integer, as 
> opposed to conversion to unicode for ucs-2?

Non. UTF-8 is a variable-length byte encoding.
See http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2279.txt for details.


Florent
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