I asked my colleague your question on Unicode & bytes - this was his reply :
Unicode is 16 bits. UTF-8 needs 1 byte for a 7-bit character (ASCII),
2 bytes for an 11-bit character (including ISO-8859-1), and 3 bytes for
a 16-bit character.
DaveS
Joanne
Dmitry Serebrennikov (11/10/2001 18:44):
>I figured that I might as well be adding comments as I am reading and
>figuring out the code.
>One thing I was not clear on - characters are stored with 1 to 3 bytes.
>Is that sufficient to represent all Unicode characters? I thought
>Unicode was four bytes.
>
>Index: InputStream.java
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>RCS file:
>/home/cvspublic/jakarta-lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/store/InputStream.
java,v
>retrieving revision 1.1.1.1
