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> Does anyone out there know the difference between UTF-2
> (Unicode std 1.0 I believe) and UTF-8? If you are aware of a
> program that converts files in UTF-8 to UTF-2 and vice versa,
> please let me know,
The Unicode Standard, Version 1.0, is represented in the
form known as UCS-2.
Published in the back of of The Unicode Standard, Version 1.1,
(Unicode Technical Report #4) was a transformation format
identified as FSS-UTF. That is what we now know as UTF-8.
UTF-1 was a transformation format published in the first
edition of ISO/IEC 10646, since supplanted by amendments which
have defined UTF-8 and UTF-16.
The Unicode Standard, Version 2.0, is represented in the form
known as UTF-16--which for all characters encoded so far is
identical to UCS-2.
UTF-2 is an erroneous term.
If your question is: is there a program to convert between
UTF-8 and UCS-2 (or UTF-16), a sample program to do so
is printed in the Unicode Standard, Version 2.0, and
is available on the Unicode website.
ftp://www.unicode.org/Public/PROGRAMS/CVTUTF
There are many different implementations now available.
Such conversions are built into the Java JDK, for example.
--Ken
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> Thanks in advance for your help.
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