Richard Wordingham wrote: > Just steer them away from UTF-16! (And vigorously prohibit the very concept > of UCS-2).
UTF-16 is very useful. I use it in my research project. If the byte content of a UTF-16 file is displayed in a hexadecimal display then for all plane 0 characters the byte content of the character codes are thereby displayed directly. Also, all characters that can be encoded in Unicode can be stored in a UTF-16 file. William Overington Friday 25 August 2017 ----Original message---- >From : unicode@unicode.org Date : 2017/08/25 - 00:23 (GMTST) To : unicode@unicode.org Subject : Re: Unicode education in Schools On Thu, 24 Aug 2017 17:17:10 +0000 Andre Schappo via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org> wrote: > So, I consider it important to familiarise students with SMP > characters as well as BMP characters. Then when they develop software > they will, at the start, be thinking beyond ASCII and Unicode BMP > characters. Just steer them away from UTF-16! (And vigorously prohibit the very concept of UCS-2). Richard.
