Hello Vili, PMFJI ...
On Thursday, March 27, 2008 at 5:56:32 PM Vili [V] wrote: V> My advice would be: please DONT use Unicode. That uses two bytes to V> show e.g. a letter "a" instead of one. Just to clarify this: Unicode != UTF-8! That's an important difference!!! Unicode is a character table that is capable of containing more than the usual 8-bit char tables. UTF-8 is an *ENCODING* of these characters. In short: UTF-8 says which position in the Unicode-table the character is at. UTF-8 uses 8 bit for standard ISO-8859 characters and 16 bit for "special" characters (like e.g. German umlauts). V> The world has chosen it because of laziness. Instead of sending the V> charset and then a charcodes, people send a lot of byte 0 nowadays. *ONLY* when using e.g. UTF-16 (or UCS-2) as character *encoding*. So to sum up: albeit "Unicode" might be used as character set it's not necessarily the case that 2 bytes get transferred, because the *encoding* can make use of (only) 1 byte to _transfer_ the information. -- Regards Peter Palmreuther (The Bat! v4.0.18.6 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2) He's a trash-culture king on a four-color throne ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 4.0.18.6 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
