> > 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 (which I just found by googling; it looks a bit out-of-date).
I had absolutely no clue about this ;) I've been using unicode for years and I had never heard about 20 bits! thanks for correcting me - I have some code to change in my C++ classes now. max > 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. _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
