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From: Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de>
Subject: Re: System.WCh_Cnv
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 18:13:58 +0200
Date: 2006-07-14T18:12:31+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44b7c26e$0$26254$9b4e6d93@newsread2.arcor-online.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1152862832.649761.205770@75g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>

Martin Krischik wrote:
> Bj�rn Persson schrieb:
> 
>> Let's get some things straight so that we'll understand each other
>> better. Unicode defines several character encodings. When you write
>> "Unicode", do you mean UTF-8, UTF-16, UCS-4 (also called UTF-32) or
>> UCS-2? Ada's Wide_String is UCS-2 and Wide_Wide_String is UCS-4.
> 
> I wonder about that. UCS character set are fixed length and UTF
> character sets are variable lengt. So is it rigth  to say that  UCS-4
> is UTF-32?

UTF is a UCS Tranformation Format.
UCS is the Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set.
UCS-4 is the canonical form of the UCS

Not sure whether UCS has anything to say about endianness.
UTF has.


-- Georg 



  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-07-14 16:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-12 14:13 System.WCh_Cnv Y.Tomino
2006-07-12 15:51 ` System.WCh_Cnv Martin Krischik
2006-07-12 18:57   ` System.WCh_Cnv Björn Persson
2006-07-13 17:24   ` System.WCh_Cnv demoonlit
2006-07-13 21:30     ` System.WCh_Cnv Björn Persson
2006-07-14  7:19       ` System.WCh_Cnv Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-07-14  7:40       ` System.WCh_Cnv Martin Krischik
2006-07-14 12:18         ` System.WCh_Cnv Björn Persson
2006-07-16 11:41           ` System.WCh_Cnv Martin Krischik
2006-07-24 21:00             ` System.WCh_Cnv Björn Persson
2006-07-24 23:35               ` System.WCh_Cnv Randy Brukardt
2006-07-25  0:45                 ` System.WCh_Cnv Marius Amado-Alves
2006-07-14 16:13         ` Georg Bauhaus [this message]
2006-07-12 18:57 ` System.WCh_Cnv Björn Persson
2006-07-13 17:34   ` System.WCh_Cnv demoonlit
     [not found] <8BB3B99E-16DA-4EBF-A2FE-50B079349CA9@amado-alves.info>
2006-07-25  0:45 ` System.WCh_Cnv Marius Amado-Alves
     [not found] <EBEKJMEEPPFAACCBBGNHAELNDIAA.randy@rrsoftware.com>
2006-07-25 10:31 ` System.WCh_Cnv Marius Amado-Alves
2006-07-25 12:21   ` System.WCh_Cnv Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-07-25 13:03     ` System.WCh_Cnv Marius Amado-Alves
2006-07-25 13:36       ` System.WCh_Cnv Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-07-25 14:09       ` System.WCh_Cnv Georg Bauhaus
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