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At 06:04 AM 11/17/99 -0500, James Tauber wrote: >UTF-16, however, only gives access to the equivalent of Unicode with the >surrogate extension mechanism, ie the first 17 planes of the UCS. Right, a mere million extra characters in excess of what we're using now. This feels like a pretty low-risk option to me. In terms of actual usability, there's effectively no difference between UTF-16 and UTF-8. UTF-16 seems to be an easier sell in Japan for reasons that I've not fully understood. What's really happening, near as I can tell, is that C programmers use UTF-8 and Java programmers use UTF-16, regardless of where they're from. Fortunately, this particular conversion is easy and requires no tables. -T. 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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