"Chris Jones" <cjns1...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:mailman.2149.1256707687.2807.python-l...@python.org... > On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 06:21:11AM EDT, Lie Ryan wrote: >> Chris Jones wrote: > > [..] > >>> Best part of Unicode is that there are multiple encodings, right? ;-) >> >> No, the best part about Unicode is there is no encoding! > >> Unicode does not define any encoding; > > RFC 3629: > > "ISO/IEC 10646 and Unicode define several encoding forms of their > common repertoire: UTF-8, UCS-2, UTF-16, UCS-4 and UTF-32." > >> what it defines is code-points for characters which is not related to >> how characters are encoded in files or network transmission. > > In other words, Unicode is "not related to any encoding" .. and yet the > UTF-8, UTF-16.. "encoding forms" are clearly "related" to Unicode. > > How is that possible? > > CJ
When I first saw it, my first thought was that the subjectline was an oxymoron. --Tim Arnold -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
