Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| Angus Leeming wrote:
| > UTF-8 is a multi-byte encoding. It's useful for output to file
| > because the data are stored as characters (bytes). So, much of a
| > UTF-8 encoded file will be human readable; only the multi-byte
| > sequences will not.
| >
| Actually, the multibyte sequences are human readable
| too, if the human is reading them on an xterm, a linux console,
You mean viewable. xterm (etc.) read the utf-8 for you and shows the
correct glyph (or grapheme... whatever)
Well, sure. Viewable, that's what "human readable" means in
this context, isn't it. (Pointing out that utf-8 text is considered
as "viewable" as ascii, as the usual reading tools supports it.)'
Most humans don't read ascii directly either, they rely on
some terminal or terminal emulator or printer to make
glyphs for them. Only a few reads ascii (from punched cards and
such) directly.
Helge Hafting
