• To: Ronald Bourret <rpbourret@r...>
• Subject: Unicode basics (was Re: ANN: Gorille 0.3)
• From: Mike Brown <mike@s...>
• Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 01:35:28 -0700 (MST)
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <3C3E2085.47087400@r...> "from Ronald Bourret at Jan 10,2002 03:15:17 pm"

Ronald Bourret wrote:
> For those of us who *are* ignorant about this, could we get a quick
> explanation? (Among other things, what's the difference between a
> character and a "code point", assuming I'm using the correct
> terminology...)

My favorite subject :)

I wrote up quite a bit on this at http://skew.org/xml/tutorial/
and ran it by both the Unicode and xml-dev mailing lists for accuracy.

My primary source material for the Unicode portions was Unicode
Technical Report #17 at http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr17/

You might find the links at http://skew.org/xml/links/ under
"Specifications - Character Encoding" helpful.

   - Mike
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