In <[email protected]>, on 09/23/2013
at 04:56 PM, Charles Mills <[email protected]> said:
>"Unicode" is not a character set (or "format") -- it's a whole family
>of character sets.
Not really; it's a 32-bit character set with a 16-bit subset (UCS-2)
for the BMP. UTF-8 and UTF-16 are not character sets, but, rather,
transforms for representing Unicode characters in bytes smaller than
32 bits.
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