Marcus Sundman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [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
And I tend to call the relation Character <-> number an "encoding".
As the "number" may be outside the range of "classical characters" that
on most systems live inside octetts, there is a need to use another encoding
on top of the unicode encoding. This second encoding is typically UTF-8 on UNIX.
Jörg
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