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Re: unicode confusion

• From: "Fabio Arciniegas A." <l-arcini@u...>
• To: xml-dev@i...
• Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 13:37:45 -0500 (GMT+5)

<snip/> 
> Note that Java uses UTF-16, which isn't quite fixed-width, though no
> one really notices.

Err... David, I thought Java used UTF-8, actually a version slightly
different from the "typical" version that expresses:
Characters in the range  \u0001 to \u007F in one byte: 0[bits 0-6]
Characters in the range  \u0080 to \u07FF and \u0000 in two bytes:
110[bits 7 -10]  10[bits 0-6]
Characters in the range  \u0800 to \uFFFF in three bytes: 1110[bits 12-15] 
10[bits 6-11] 10[bits 0-5]

(what's different from typical is that NULL is in two bytes, so there's no 
embedded nulls in java vm strings)
....
However, It has been quite a while since the last time I looked... Have
this changed in latest versions?

Best,
Fabio

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