James Williams wrote: > Can someone please help me understand whether support for > double byte is the same as being Unicode compliant. No. "Double byte" normally refers to the national character sets used in China, Japan and Korea (much older than Unicode). As these languages require thousands of characters, some of which are encoded with a pair of bytes. > Any elaboration would be greatly > appreciated. I think you need some basic reading. This mailing list can become useful later, when you understand the basics and start having questions on specific issues. Here are some official places introducing Unicode are, in order of increasing difficulty: http://www.unicode.org/unicode/standard/WhatIsUnicode.html http://www.unicode.org/unicode/standard/principles.html http://www.unicode.org/unicode/uni2book/uc20ch1.html http://www.unicode.org/unicode/faq/ There are many unofficial introductions to Unicode. I personally like these two private sites: http://www.macchiato.com/ -- by the president of Unicode; see "Unicode" and "IBM" sections on the right panel; "Forms of Unicode" is especially helpful; http://www.czyborra.com/ -- the section "Illustrated Prehistory: What was there before Unicode?" is great for understanding non-Unicode encodings (single-byte and double-byte). > If for instance, being Unicode compliant has any additional > value/benefits, etc... I'd like to understand how, why! Official: http://www.unicode.org/press/press_release-3.0.html Unofficial: http://www.geocities.com/i18nguy/UnicodeBenefits.html Regards. _ Marco Cimarosti
