On Wed, 12 Apr 2017 13:50:47 -0500, John McKown wrote:
>
>> * CONVERT UNICODE TO UTF-8
>> * CONVERT UTF-8 TO UNICODE
>>
>> What's "UNICODE"? I suppose it's in a glossary somewhere.
>
>With respect to the PoPS, "Convert UTF-8 to Unicode" is exactly the same
>instruction as "Convert UTF-8 to UTF-16" and "Convert Unicode to UTF-8" is
>the same instruction as "Convert UTF-16 to UTF-8". The results are
>documented in the instruction on the transformation results, but (of
>course) does not say exactly how it is implemented.
>
I see that:
CONVERT UTF-8 TO UTF-16
CONVERT UTF-8 TO UNICODE
...
'B2A7'
...
The one-, two-, three-, or four-byte UTF-8 characters of the second
operand are converted to two-byte Unicode characters and placed
at the first operand location.
But Wikipedia, which is always right, tells me that UTF-16 is not a
two-byte representation but a variable-length representation.
RCF in order?
-- gil
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