RE: UTF8 vs. Unicode (UTF16) in code

From: Peter_Constable@sil.org
Date: Fri Mar 09 2001 - 09:03:53 EST


On 03/08/2001 07:40:25 PM "Ayers, Mike" wrote:

> If you really want to finish the job, there's always UTF-32, which
>should do rather nicely until we meet the space aliens aith the
>4,293,853,186 character alphabet!

Um... no. The 1,113,023 character alphabet (one more than the encodable
scalar values in the codespace supported by UTF-8 / 16 / 32).

- Peter

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