Diff between UCS-2 and UTF-16

hi guys,   can someone pls tell me what is the difference between UCS-2 and UTF-16... both seem to be 16-bit or double byte representation of Unicode code points   so whats the differencve... in their coding schemes?? or what else???   pls this is urgent   regards,   Sande

Re: do all browsers support UTF-8 encoding???

SA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 408.210.3569 (mobile) +1 408.904.4762 (fax) === Globalization Engineering & Consulting Services On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Sandeep Krishna wrote: > hi guys!! > > can someone tell

Re: do all browsers support UTF-8 encoding???

Gatos, CA, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 408.210.3569 (mobile) +1 408.904.4762 (fax) === Globalization Engineering & Consulting Services On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Sandeep Krishna wrote: > hi guys!! > > can s

do all browsers support UTF-8 encoding???

hi guys!!   can someone tell me whether all browsers (atleast IE 2,3.0 and Netscape...) support encoding/deocding on UTF-8   and also, can there be an instance of browser (say a primitave version of a Chinese Netscape) that supports Big 5 encoding but not UTF-8. THis info. is crucial as i

how does a chinese keyboard input....

hi,   guys, can anyone tell me how does a Chinese Keyboard take inputs... i mean that Chinese has more than a thousand characters... and also majorly their script is Ideographics or characters represent symbols...   then how can a keyboard incorporate such volume of characters in thier limit

re: encoding??????

Subject: Re: Encoding On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Sandeep Krishna wrote: > can someone tell me...what does the Encoding in the browser (IE5) imlpy. That's a good question. Internet Explorer 5 is relatively advanced in the area of handling different encodings. It seems to hon

Encoding????????????

hi guys...   can someone tell me...what does the Encoding in the browser (IE5) imlpy. does it mean that the Encoding (say UTF-8 or Chinese Big5) shall be used for encoding/ decoding any data ..(page) to be displayed or sent   i mean if i use an encoding like Big5 how does it enc

Re: unicode + oracle query....... (suggestions needed...)

s, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ORACLE\NLS_LANG HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ORACLE\ALL_HOMES\ID0\NLS_LANG HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ORACLE\HOME0\NLS_LANG Best of luck Regards, Kedar -Original Message- From: Sandeep Krishna [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 5:45 PM To: Carl W. Brown; B

Re: unicode + oracle query....... (suggestions needed...)

"AMERICAN_AMERICA.UTF8" and if some of them doesnt need this...what exactly should be there pls suggest necessary messures.. regards, Sandeep - Original Message - From: Bob Verbrugge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sandeep Krishna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday

Re: unicode + oracle query....... (suggestions needed...)

and autodetect_all (in classid...Mime>database>charset..) pls do elaborate regards, Sandeep - Original Message - From: Kedar Moghe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: 'Sandeep Krishna' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 11:20 AM Subject

unicode + oracle query....... (suggestions needed...)

hi   actually i have been trying to use ASPs (UTF-8 encoding..) to write unicode cahracters to an Oracle DB table (varchar2 field)... and then retrieve them back.. (i used UTF-8 encoding for both writing to the database and also for retriving and displaying..)   there were some amazing o

performance.....

guys...any idea what does the use of unicode affect on the database performance ona NT setup...will things slow down due to this ??? ***    SANDEEP KRISHNAMember Technical Staff (Priceline.com)H.C.

testing .....

pls ignore this this for testing my membership in thhe mailing list   ***    SANDEEP KRISHNAMember Technical Staff (Priceline.com)H.C.L. Technologies LimitedA-1 C&D, Sector -16, NOIDA, UP, Indi

help on Unicode

regard, that would be just great...   thankx and regards,   Sandeep Krishna and Santosh S.N.