The_Monk: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ... differences between unicode and UTF-8 ...--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hi, you may check e.g. the following article about the differences of "Unicode" and "utf-8"... http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html Basically, Unicode isn't an encoding, it's a conventional mapping of "letters" to their unique identifiers - hex numbers named "code points". There are severeal "encodings" to represent these "letters" (or "code points" for unicode systems) in bytes - utf-8 beeing one of them (PSPad also supports utf-16, others should be available in the future). I don't have any experiences with java, but I'd find it rather surprising, if there were any problems with using utf-8, as this is becoming a kind of standard (also because of its relative space efficiency - esp. for latin characters - and the full coverage of all code points defined by the unicode standard.) Unicode is indeed a complex topic, you may find the web site of the Unicode consortium helpful, e.g. What is unicode http://www.unicode.org/standard/WhatIsUnicode.html Code Charts - pdf tables of the supported characters http://www.unicode.org/charts/ Unicode 5.1 names list (1 MB txt file) http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/NamesList.txt vbr -- <http://forum.pspad.com/read.php?2,46017,46018> PSPad freeware editor http://www.pspad.com
