From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: System.WCh_Cnv
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 18:35:00 -0500
Date: 2006-07-24T18:35:00-05:00 [thread overview]
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"Bj�rn Persson" <spam-away@nowhere.nil> wrote in message
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>...
> How about a *hypothetical* counter-example? If you had a character with
> the code point 100000000 hexadecimal, how would you encode it in UTF-32?
> I believe it's impossible; I believe UTF-32 is a fixed-width encoding.
It would have to be hypothetical: Unicode is a 31-bit character set. Note
that I said 31 bits, not 32-bits.
Thus, UTF-32 and UCS-4 are the same *if encoding Unicode characters*.
(UTF-32 would need extra bytes to encode 32-bit characters with the high bit
on, but those would not be Unicode characters.)
Of course, some future character set could use more then 31-bits, but that
seems well into the future.
Randy Brukardt.
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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 ` Randy Brukardt [this message]
2006-07-25 0:45 ` System.WCh_Cnv Marius Amado-Alves
2006-07-14 16:13 ` System.WCh_Cnv Georg Bauhaus
2006-07-12 18:57 ` System.WCh_Cnv Björn Persson
2006-07-13 17:34 ` System.WCh_Cnv demoonlit
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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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