On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Gregory Woodhouse <gregwoodho...@me.com> wrote: > Is it possible to ensure that data written to a socket or file is encoded as > UTF-16? I ask because Health Level 7 (HL7) 2.5.1 allows messages to use > UTF-16 as opposed to US-ASCII, but it has to be a fixed width encoding.
Note that while HL7 may wish it to be fixed width, UTF-16 is a variable width encoding, with some Unicode codepoints requiring 4 bytes. UCS-2 is a very similar encoding which simply cannot encode the codepoints requiring 4 bytes in UTF-16, which might be better suited here. -- sam th sa...@ccs.neu.edu _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
