On 08-Feb-2004, max <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Gabor, > I think you're confused. Characters in .NET are 16 bits BECAUSE they are > unicode. 16 bits = 2 bytes = 65536 values.
No, Gabor is not confused. Unicode has grown. It is now 20 bits, not 16. See for example <http://www.terena.nl/library/multiling/unicode/utf16.html> (which I just found by googling; it looks a bit out-of-date). Unfortunately Windows, Java, and .NET all use 16-bit characters. That means that they must either (a) use UCS-2 encoding, i.e. don't support the new unicode characters such as "OLD ITALIC LETTER A"; or (b) use UTF-16 encoding, which means that these characters which don't fit in 16 bits get represented as a pair of 16-bit codes. -- Fergus Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | "I have always known that the pursuit The University of Melbourne | of excellence is a lethal habit" WWW: <http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~fjh> | -- the last words of T. S. Garp. _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
