Marcus Sundman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joerg Schilling) wrote:
> > [...] ISO-8859-1 (the low 8 bits of UNOICODE) [...]
>
> Unicode is not an encoding, but you probably mean "the low 8 bits of
> UCS-2" or "the first 256 codepoints in Unicode" or somesuch.
Unicode _is_ an encoding that uses 21 (IIRC) bits.
UCS-2 is a way to _represent_ the low 16 bits of UNICODE in a way that allows
to
use some tricks go bejund 16 bits. Microfoft e.g. does not go bejund 16 bits.
ISO-8859-1 is a representation of the low 8 bits of UNICODE (well ISO-8859-1
is older than UNICODE ;-). ISO-8859-1 does not allow to code more than the
8 least sinificant bits from unicode.
Jörg
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