Op di 05-11-2024 om 10:28 schreef A bughunter via Unicode:
I didn't post to hold a free seminar on computer science. By my grace I will expound: UTF-8 is a text format of Unicode. Unicode is a standard. In order to get anything to produce Unicode UTF-8 it must be compiled. Time is a sequence of events you have compile time and runtime. Before something is compiled it is sourcecode. Wherever the UTF-8 is input into the sourcecode it is then compiled into a runtime. As far as your gripe about my strange use of "bytecode" I have already defined it absolutely so. You may go back and re-read. > I don't think I'm alone in saying that your question is very unclear, in major part by your very strange use of certain terms. I don't think I've ever encountered "bytecode" outside of Java implementations, and never does it refer to textual (prose) data as you seem to do. I still don't know what "compile time UTF-8" is supposed to be, and I've read both your messages multiple times.
I don't know if this helps but anyway: An input routine converts what you type on the keyboard to Unicode. When you save it to disk you can choose if you want to use UTF-8 or some other encoding. Fonts determine how a character looks on the screen. An output routine uses these fonts to display the character. These routines are part of an operating system. The source code of some operating systems is publicly available.
-- Alex.
