From: Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: "Coding system"? Eh?
Date: 10 Sep 1998 22:21:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m34sufbtx9.fsf@furu.g.aas.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: davidk@lysator.liu.se's message of "10 Sep 1998 14:45:06 +0200"
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davidk@lysator.liu.se (David Kågedal) writes:
> > You mean, all Unicode characters. ISO 10646 might need more then three,
> > as UTF-8 is also available for ISO 10646.
>
> True. I was talking about Unicode.
Unicode is in sync with ISO 10646. Also Unicode allocates characters
above U+FFFF. http://www.unicode.org/unicode/alloc/Pipeline.html.
> The difference between UTF-16 and UCS-2 is that it can encode some of
> the charaters outside the Unicode range (BMP). So I guess Unicode has
> no need for UTF-16.
Unicode 2.x is in a way UTF-16.
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Gisle Aas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-09-10 20:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-09-05 16:01 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-09-05 16:31 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
1998-09-05 20:07 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-09-05 20:45 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1998-09-05 21:12 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-09-05 21:47 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1998-09-07 15:12 ` David Kågedal
1998-09-09 18:50 ` François Pinard
1998-09-10 12:45 ` David Kågedal
1998-09-10 20:21 ` Gisle Aas [this message]
1998-09-11 6:27 ` François Pinard
1998-09-11 6:16 ` François Pinard
1998-09-11 16:14 ` Hallvard B Furuseth
2002-10-20 23:13 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-09-09 18:59 ` François Pinard
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