Re: QBCS

From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Fri Aug 29 2003 - 11:26:30 EDT

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Marco Cimarosti <marco dot cimarosti at essetre dot it> wrote:

>>> So what it really means must be "quadra-byte character
>>> encoding", and both GB 18030 and UTF-32 should fit
>>> into that category.
>>
>> GB 18030, yes, because its code units vary from one to four bytes in
>> length. UTF-32, no, because its code units are uniformly 32 bits.
>
> But UTF-8 fits the definition.

Correct.

-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/

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