From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>
Subject: Re: UTF-8 in strings - a bug?
Date: 08 May 2004 09:44:27 +0200
Date: 2004-05-08T09:44:27+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <pld65f8isk.fsf@sparre.crs4.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: q0Vmc.58459$mU6.237464@newsb.telia.net
Bj�rn Persson 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.
Your quotes (which may be unfair :-) look like it isn't you who has
misunderstood the subject of character encodings.
Jacob
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-05 22:12 UTF-8 in strings - a bug? Björn Persson
2004-05-05 23:31 ` Robert I. Eachus
2004-05-06 8:34 ` Björn Persson
2004-05-06 9:25 ` Ludovic Brenta
2004-05-06 17:13 ` Björn Persson
2004-05-06 18:24 ` Martin Krischik
2004-05-07 23:32 ` Björn Persson
2004-05-08 6:38 ` Martin Krischik
2004-05-08 7:44 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen [this message]
2004-05-08 11:06 ` Björn Persson
2004-05-08 16:25 ` Martin Krischik
2004-05-09 12:16 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-05-10 6:29 ` Martin Krischik
2004-05-08 12:10 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-05-06 9:06 ` David Starner
2004-05-06 17:36 ` Björn Persson
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