Re: Perception that Unicode is 16-bit (was: Re: Surrogate space i

[Peter_Constable]

On 02/22/2001 01:38:24 PM Tom Lord wrote:

>   [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>   "Unicode is a character set encoding standard which currently provides
for
>   its entire character repertoire to be represented using 8-bit, 16-bit
or
>   32-bit encodings."
>
>Please say "encoding forms".

OK, but I'm more concerned about my improper use of which. It also wouldn't
hurt to mention the potential size of the repertoire:


"Unicode is a character set encoding standard that can support a character
repertoire of over a million characters and that currently provides for its
entire repertoire to be represented using 8-bit, 16-bit or 32-bit encoding
forms."



- Peter


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