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Re: Use of UTF-8 and UTF-16

• To: Elliotte Harold <elharo@m...>
• Subject: Re: Use of UTF-8 and UTF-16
• From: Philippe Poulard <Philippe.Poulard@s...>
• Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 15:04:51 +0100
• Cc: Rick Jelliffe <rjelliffe@a...>, Xml-Dev <xml-dev@l...>
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Elliotte Harold wrote:
> Rick Jelliffe wrote:
> 
>> For CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) XML documents, where three (or six)
>> bytes may be used by UTF-8 instead of UCS-16's two (or four), UTF-16 
>> files
>> will usually be smaller.
> 
> 
> First a correction: UTF-8 never uses six bytes for anything. The largest 
> UTF-8 character you'll ever see is 4 bytes wide.
> 

hi,

I read somewhere that :

UTF-8 uses 6 bytes for ISO/IEC 10646
UTF-8 uses 4 bytes for Unicode

Unicode is a subset of ISO/IEC 10646 (in terms of addressing)
ISO/IEC 10646 is a subset of Unicode (in terms of semantic)

XML uses Unicode

-- 
Cordialement,

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