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Re: Mix encodings in a document?

  • From: John Cowan <cowan@l...>
  • To: XML Dev <xml-dev@i...>
  • Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 12:27:14 -0400

ucs2 format
Jerome McDonough wrote:

> Under Unicode version 2.0,
> what I should've said is:
> 
>         Unicode == ISO-10646-UCS-2 != UTF-16
> 
> as Unicode and 10646 in UCS-2 format should be identical, but UTF-16
> differs from both of these in it allows the use of code surrogate
> pairs to enable encoding the BMP and next 16 planes of UCS-4.  From
> what I can see at Unicode's home page, it now looks like Unicode is
> dropping UCS-2 character encoding and now only endorses UTF-8 and
> UTF-16, so that the situation now is:
> 
>         Unicode != ISO-10646-UCS-2
> 
> and Unicode sometimes does/sometimes does not equal UTF-16.  Is that
> more or less the case at the moment?

"Unicode 2.0" and "Unicode 2.1" always mean UTF-16.  UCS-2 proper
(that is, the encoding that does not allow references to what
10646 calls Planes 1 to 10) has never been Unicode since the
distinction between UCS-2 and UTF-16 was invented.  Before that,
there was only UCS-2 and Unicode = UCS-2.

So Unicode = UTF-16 != UCS-2, but the distinction is usually
trivial: UCS-2 per se does not define any meaning for surrogate
characters.

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