RE: OT: RE: filesystem encoding

2004-09-10 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Welcome to the 21st century, where computers can't even unambiguously represent written text. Isn't this something unicode was meant to solve? Yes, and if implemented properly, it mostly does. or does unicode still need a codepage to map to glyphs?

OT: RE: filesystem encoding

2004-09-09 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
Hmm...interesting. Not entirely sure what the implications of what you are saying are (as I don't really understand codepages). Does a codepage represent a character with 16 bits? or 8? Could you recommend a book or a URL on the subject? Maybe I should look at this when I have more