Posted by ironcorona on 05/27/06 06:43

Luigi Donatello Asero wrote:
> "ironcorona" <iron.corona@gmail.com> skrev i meddelandet
> news:4477bc8f@quokka.wn.com.au...
>> Luigi Donatello Asero wrote:
>>
>>> Well, so far I have been able to display Russian and Chinese in
>>> UTF-16.
>> How come you're using UTF-16? Russian and Chinese can both be encoded
>> in UTF-8.
>
> Does that work on Wordpad and Notepad? Or perhaps is the server not properly
> configured for the use of Unicode?

No, no, I was asking a question. Since UTF-8 is the de facto standard
on the net I was just wondering why you were choosing UTF-16

>> Though I would like to ask; how many Chinese symbols are there?
> Where?

In the world. UTF can only support so many characters. I know that
there are thousands of Chinese characters out there and was just
wondering if they were all in UTF-8?

>> Can you
>> encode them *all* in UTF-8? Also [and wildly off topic] how do you make
>> up new [written] words in Chinese?
>
> What do you mean by "new [written] words in Chinese"?

Well if I wanted to make up a new word in English, lets say blog for the
moment. I hear how it sounds and then use the English alphabet
characters that represent that sound [taking into account, obviously,
historical precedent on how certain words are spelled etc]. Since each
Chinese word needs a new character I was wondering what the system was
for creating new written words.

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Brian O'Connor (ironcorona)

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