In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
on 06/22/2005
at 01:40 PM, "Pommier, Rex R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Knowing nothing about DBCS or Unicode I have a silly question - is
>Unicode a superset of DBCS?
No; Unicode is a 20-bit code with a 16-bit subset, compatible with ISO
10646, and does not use a SI/SO mechanism. There is a transform
(UTF-8) for representing Unicode in 8-bit bytes, but it does not use
SI/SO either.
Note: the first half page (code points 0-127) of Unicode are identical
to ASCII.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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