On 12 April 2017 at 15:22, Paul Gilmartin <
[email protected]> wrote:

> 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?
>

Probably. I don't know if the Unicode entities that make up surrogate pairs
are legitimately called "characters". I think not.

Tony H.

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