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At 11 Nov 1999 17:32 -0500, Clark C. Evans wrote: > > o UTF-8 encoding only > > I'm kinda ingnorant... would it still be > possible to handle oriental character sets > with UTF-8 ? You can still represent the characters from your oriental character sets using UTF-8, but it takes three bytes per character to do so (instead of two bytes with UTF-16 and most legacy encodings). UTF-8 is a win for English text, since the ASCII characters are represented with one byte. For most scripts, however, UTF-8 takes up more bytes per character than UTF-16. It is well known the three bytes per character range includes the CJK ideographs, but it also includes Hangul, the South and Southeast Asian Scripts, and others too numerous to mention here. Whether UTF-8 or UTF-16 is better depends both on what scripts you mainly use and on what your tools support (since neither UTF-8 support nor UTF-16 support is universal among general-purpose programming languages or editors or...). Regards, Tony Graham ====================================================================== Tony Graham mailto:tgraham@m... Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9632 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ====================================================================== xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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