On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 06:21:11AM EDT, Lie Ryan wrote: > Chris Jones wrote:
[..] >> Best part of Unicode is that there are multiple encodings, right? ;-) > > No, the best part about Unicode is there is no encoding! > Unicode does not define any encoding; RFC 3629: "ISO/IEC 10646 and Unicode define several encoding forms of their common repertoire: UTF-8, UCS-2, UTF-16, UCS-4 and UTF-32." > what it defines is code-points for characters which is not related to > how characters are encoded in files or network transmission. In other words, Unicode is "not related to any encoding" .. and yet the UTF-8, UTF-16.. "encoding forms" are clearly "related" to Unicode. How is that possible? CJ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
