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On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 13:05 +0700, James Clark wrote: > > > > > > It's also a common misconception that Unicode is a 16-bit character set; > > it defines more than 65536 characters, and "surrogate pairs" in > > languages like Java make utf16 as complex as utf8; processing characters > > in either utf-8 or ucs-32 are the most common choices outside the Java > > world as far as I can tell. > > > > UTF-16 is very common as an internal representation. Not just Java, also > .NET, JavaScript, Windows, OS X, Symbian, IE, Mozilla, Opera, > OpenOffice.org, Qt. Oops, you are right of course, thanks for the correction. I should rather say, utf-8 and utf-16 are both very widely used; 32-bit representations are also in use. (It's true that surrogate pairs introduce some of the complexities of utf-8 processing into the utf-16 world, and that utf-16 isn't a cure-all panacea, of course, but really the point was supposed to be that utf-16 is in widespread use and sticking to utf-8 only isn't a good idea. Boy did I say that badly last time!) Thanks, Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org www.advogato.org
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