[ No need to CC me; I am subscribed to -policy ] On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 00:23, David B Harris wrote:
> Could you provide a quick background about what Unicode is Sure. Essentially Unicode is a universal character set, used to encode all the world's languages, plus other symbols from mathematics and the like. It is intended to supplant the other national charsets like US-ASCII, ISO-8859-1 and BIG5 which are specific to the United States, Western Europe, and China, respectively. Unicode makes internationalization and multilingualization much easier. > and how it > co-operates with 7-bit ASCII? The UTF-8 encoding of Unicode (translation from code point number into sequence of bytes) is completely backwards compatible with US-ASCII, and moreover no ASCII character appears as part of a multibyte character, which makes it filesystem safe, for example. See the URL I gave in the patch for more information: http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/cgi-bin/rfc/rfc2279.html I hope that helps!
