On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 12:29:12AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Unlike UCS-2, UTF-8 can also encode the entire 31-bit Unicode space. > > 20.1-bit space. And UTF-16 (which has mostly surplanted UCS-2, even > if the UTF-16 support is still a bit beta) can encode the same 20.1 > space. Those characters UTF-16 doesn't support aren't going to be > used for Unicode characters.
Or, "the intire ISO 10646 space". Actually, UTF-8 as defined by unicode cannot encode more than the 20,1 bit space, while the UTF-8 as defined by ISO and IETF can encode the full 31 bit code space. Kind regards Keld -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
