Thanks for a very simple and clear answer. Anne
Rex Baldazo wrote: >Unicode is an encoding that allows all characters from all languages to >be identified uniquely: > >http://www.unicode.org/standard/WhatIsUnicode.html > >Remember that to a computer, these letters you're seeing are represented >internally as just numbers. In the bad old days, what would happen is >that different encodings might use the same number to represent >different characters. So you might have the number 27 representing one >character in the English alphabet while representing some other number >in, say, the Cyrillic alphabet. > >Unicode does away with all that--every character in every language has a >distinct and unique encoding. The number 27 represents one and only one >character in the Unicode world. > >The one (minor) drawback is of course that you need a lot of bits to >represent all those characters--Unicode requires up to 32 bits for each >character. > >--- Rex. > > >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu >[mailto:owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu] On Behalf Of Anne >Cartwright >Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 12:41 PM >To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu >Subject: Re: MacGroup: Diacritic marks > >I have been waiting to see if Marta would ask, but she probably knows so >I will ask. What is Unicode? In the increasingly complicated world of >computers, "one code" sounds like a good idea. But I'm sure it's not >simple. > >Anne > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 24 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
