From: Benjamin Riefenstahl <Benjamin.Riefenstahl@epost.de>
Subject: Re: Gnus: UTF-8 and compatibility with other MUAs
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 17:58:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3isovyn3e.fsf@seneca.benny.turtle-trading.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <u1xvkkzke.fsf@ID-87814.user.dfncis.de> (Oliver Scholz's message of "Sun, 17 Aug 2003 18:40:17 +0200")
Hi Oliver,
>> Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
>>> 'cmp' still says the files are different.
> Benjamin Riefenstahl <Benjamin.Riefenstahl@epost.de> writes:
>> Actually UTF-8 still has that problem with composed vs. decomposed
>> characters. There is no perfect system AFAIK.
Oliver Scholz <alkibiades@gmx.de> writes:
> Do you refer to the fact here that a character like, say, U+00E9
> (LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE) is equivalent to U+0065 followed
> by U+0301 (LATIN SMALL LETTER E followed by COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT)?
Yes.
> So AFAIK UTF-16 is meant as a space-efficient format for East Asian
> text.
That and compatibility. The first Unicode versions talked much about
the 16-bit representation and the most wide-spread users (Windows NT,
COM, VFAT, HFS+) implemented it like that.
benny
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-18 15:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-14 15:48 Xavier Maillard
2003-08-14 22:39 ` Frank Schmitt
2003-08-15 18:22 ` Xavier Maillard
2003-08-14 23:01 ` Jesper Harder
2003-08-15 13:50 ` Oliver Scholz
2003-08-15 16:48 ` Jesper Harder
2003-08-15 18:10 ` Oliver Scholz
2003-08-16 0:23 ` Jesper Harder
2003-08-16 9:48 ` Oliver Scholz
2003-08-16 13:01 ` Jesper Harder
2003-08-16 15:36 ` Oliver Scholz
2003-08-16 17:14 ` Reiner Steib
2003-08-16 19:29 ` Oliver Scholz
2003-08-19 14:54 ` Miles Bader
2003-08-20 15:24 ` Reiner Steib
2003-08-21 0:20 ` Miles Bader
2003-08-16 17:23 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-08-16 19:18 ` Oliver Scholz
2003-08-16 22:24 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-08-17 12:30 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2003-08-17 16:40 ` Oliver Scholz
2003-08-18 2:20 ` James H. Cloos Jr.
2003-08-18 15:58 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl [this message]
2003-08-18 2:16 ` James H. Cloos Jr.
2003-08-18 2:09 ` James H. Cloos Jr.
2003-08-28 13:38 ` Jens Müller
2003-08-28 13:35 ` Jens Müller
2003-08-17 0:57 ` Jesper Harder
2003-08-17 17:24 ` Oliver Scholz
2003-08-17 18:21 ` Matthias Andree
2003-08-15 18:24 ` Xavier Maillard
2003-08-16 0:35 ` Jesper Harder
2003-08-14 23:05 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-08-15 17:00 ` Oliver Scholz
2003-08-16 7:43 ` Ivan Boldyrev
2003-08-17 17:27 ` Oliver Scholz
2003-08-18 6:01 ` Steinar Bang
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