IMO, I correctly replied to Viranga's question and I've
no idea what you're talking about below.
Misha
On 30/08/2001 13:46:57 Marco Cimarosti wrote:
> Misha Wolf wrote:
> > On 30/08/2001 09:16:21 Marco Cimarosti wrote:
> > > Viranga Ratnaike wrote:
> > > > Is it ok for Unicode code points to be
> > > > encoded/serialized using EUC?
> > [...]
> > >
> > > EUC size simply doesn't fit Unicode.
> > >
> > [...]
> > That is, IMO, quite a misleading reply. It would be more
> > helpful to say something like:
> >
> > Yes, it is OK for Unicode code points to be encoded using
> > EUC.
>
> *This* is, IMHO, a *very* misleading statement.
>
> No: it is not OK to encode Unicode in EUC, because this would be technically
> impossible, as I explained before and you explain again here:
>
> > Keep in
> > mind, though, that the EUC character repertoire is a lot smaller than
> > the Unicode character repertoire. Consequently, many Unicode
> > characters cannot be directly encoded using EUC.
>
> In fact: only Unicode chars U+0000 to U+4000 would be representable in an
> hypothetical "euc-unicode" encoding (so, e.g., no Unified ideographs would
> be allowed, as they start at U+4E00).
>
> Moreover, even if such a hybrid was possible, no current application would
> recognize or process it, because the only expected forms of Unicode are
> UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32 (plus some obsolete or variant forms that is not
> worth mentioning here).
>
> > Of course, EUC (EUC-JP in the
> > case of Japanese) may cover all the characters you require, in which
> > case there is no problem.
>
> What does Unicode have to do with this!? You are talking now about EUC-JP
> (a.k.a. EUC-JIS); Viranga was asking about using EUC to serialize Unicode.
>
> > Additionally, if you are thinking of XML (or
> > HTML) then you can encode *all* Unicode characters in an EUC-encoded
> > document, by employing numeric character references for characters
> > outside the EUC character repertoire. Using the same
> > technique, you can
> > encode all Unicode characters in an ASCII-encoded document.
>
> OK. But what does this have to do with Unicode, JIS, EUC, or anything else
> in Viranga's question?
>
> You are not obliged to reply a question but, if you decide to do so, you
> should reply to it, not to something else.
>
> _ Marco
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