[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joerg Schilling) wrote: > 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.
AFAIK you are incorrect. Unicode is a standard that, among other things, defines a _number_ for each character. A number does not equal 21 bits, even if it so happens that the highest codepoint number in the current version is no more than 21 bits long. Unicode defines (at least) 3 encodings to represent those characters: UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32. Well, it doesn't very much matter exactly how the terms are defined, as long as everybody knows what's what. So, I'm sorry for nitpicking. - Marcus _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
