Jeu George wrote on 2000-06-26 11:17 UTC:
> i would like to know the way these bits are used to code a particular
> charter, also is this dependent on the operating system, can u provide a
> program which checks finds this or any link that provides information
> about this
Try
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html
and get a copy of
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201616335/mgk25
UTF-8 itself is independent of the operating system, however there are
different line terminator conventions (just as with ASCII) and some
operating systems (Microsoft) like to put a signature code in front of
many UTF-8 files, while Unix systems generally don't like this.
Markus
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Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>
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