[pmmail-list] UTF-8

[L.Willms]

On Fri, 07 Mar 2003 10:12:35 +0000 (GMT), Simon Bowring wrote:

> >What *is* UTF-8?? Unified something or other? I know windows's
> >using Unicode chars, but...
> 
> UTF8 is a way of encoding Unicode in 8-bit (rather than unicode-native
> 16-bit) values.  

  Actually the native mode of Unicode is 32 bit; UTF-16 is the 16 bit 
encoding, and it comes in at least 3 variants (BE = Big Endian, LE = 
Little Endian, and with a BOM = Byte Order Marker at the beginning of 
the data stream). The Unicode fans have managed to reproduce the mess of 
the ASCII-Variants and ISO-8859-Parts on a higher level... 

Yours,   
Lüko Willms
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