Even if UTF-8 initially started as part of some Unix standardization
process, it was for the prupose of allowing interchanges across systems.
The networking concept was already there (otherwise it would not have been
part of the emerging *nix standardization processes, and would have
remained a
Hans Aberg haber...@telia.com wrote:
| On 12 May 2015, at 16:50, Philippe Verdy verd...@wanadoo.fr wrote:
| Indeed, that is why UTF-8 was invented for use in Unix-like environments.
|
| Not the main reason: communication protocols, and data storage \
| is also based on 8-bit code units (even
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2015/04/23/the-worlds-languages-in-7-maps-and-charts/
On 12 May 2015, at 16:50, Philippe Verdy verd...@wanadoo.fr wrote:
Indeed, that is why UTF-8 was invented for use in Unix-like environments.
Not the main reason: communication protocols, and data storage is also based
on 8-bit code units (even if storage group them by much larger
On 05/12/2015 03:05 PM, Mark Davis ☕️ wrote:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2015/04/23/the-worlds-languages-in-7-maps-and-charts/
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And a critique:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=18844
And a tangent, picking up on a complaint that Swahili wasn't represented on one
of the 7 WaPost graphics:
http://niamey.blogspot.com/2015/05/how-many-people-speak-what-in-africa.html
Two other recent posts on this blog (Beyond Niamey) critique the Africa part
of a set of graphics/maps of
2015-05-11 23:53 GMT+02:00 Hans Aberg haber...@telia.com:
It is perfectly fine considering the Unicode code points as abstract
integers, with UTF-32 and UTF-8 encodings that translate them into byte
sequences in a computer. The code points that conflict with UTF-16 might
have been merely
On 12 May 2015, at 15:45, Philippe Verdy verd...@wanadoo.fr wrote:
2015-05-11 23:53 GMT+02:00 Hans Aberg haber...@telia.com:
It is perfectly fine considering the Unicode code points as abstract
integers, with UTF-32 and UTF-8 encodings that translate them into byte
sequences in a
2015-05-12 15:56 GMT+02:00 Hans Aberg haber...@telia.com:
Indeed, that is why UTF-8 was invented for use in Unix-like environments.
Not the main reason: communication protocols, and data storage is also
based on 8-bit code units (even if storage group them by much larger
blocks).
UTF-8 is
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