Posted by Zach on 11/28/07 22:10

"UTF-8 is not catered for properly by "some operating systems"
"Every system can handle Unicode"
"ISO-8859-1 isn't Unicode"
"UTF-8 isn't Unicode"
"UTF-8 is an encoding for Unicode"
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Add this together and the outcome is
.oO(Mich)

Zach.


Michael Fesser wrote:
> .oO(Zach)
>
>> Adrian Nievergelt qrote:
>>
>> "...The only problem with UTF-8 is that some operating systems .... have
>> no or hardly sufficient support. About every modern system can handle
>> unicode though..."
>>
>> Question:
>>
>> is iso-8859-1 unicode?
>
> No.
>
>> is utf-8 unicode?
>
> No. But UTF-8 is an encoding for Unicode, where all characters are
> encoded as a sequence of 1 to 4 bytes.
>
>> What is unicode?
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode
>
> Micha

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