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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
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Subject: Re: UTF-8 in strings - a bug?
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Bj�rn Persson <spam-away@nowhere.nil> wrote:
: Well, I suppose the existence of that library is a good thing, but after 
: reading the introduction in unicode.ads I have to wonder whether it's 
: them or me who have misunderstood Unicode. It mentions "Utf32 Latin1" 
: and "Utf8 Latin2" strings. This looks really weird to me. You don't 
: encode Latin-1 in UTF-32 or Latin-2 in UTF-8. You encode Unicode in 
: UTF-8 or UTF-32, or you encode a subset of Unicode in Latin-1, or 
: another subset in Latin-2.

what is meant I think, is that there are Latin-1 characters that
as abstract characters have a code point in Unicode that corresponds
to some UTF32 encoded character.
They could as well be encoded using UTF8 or UTF16.
Latin_Capital_Letter_E_With_Acute is present in ISO 8859-1 as well
as in Unicode, and in Unicode, various bit combinations may be
used to encode it for a computer.
Unicode does have various Latin blocks, but I'm not sure about
the Latin-2 line either.

-- Georg