Before anyone flames me, let me report that I just discovered that the online index has links from its entries to the appropriate spot in the other PDF files.
- rick -----Original Message----- From: Rick Cameron Sent: Thursday, 30 May 2002 11:31 To: 'Theodore H. Smith'; Ecartis Subject: RE: How is UTF8, UTF16 and UTF32 encoded? The Unicode Standard 2.0 had a table in Appendix A that is, I think, just what you're asking for. I can't find this table in the online version of TUS 3.0 (it's not very useful that the online index gives page numbers, when there's no way to map a page number to the appropriate chapter!) Does anyone know whether this table (A-3 on page A-7) is available online somewhere? - rick -----Original Message----- From: Theodore H. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 30 May 2002 5:05 To: Ecartis Subject: RE: How is UTF8, UTF16 and UTF32 encoded? > Many of the explanations of UTF-8 discuss encoding of code points on > Code Planes 1-16 using the intermediate concept of surrogates as in > UTF-16. I > believe that this is both unnecessary and misleading, as UTF-8 is > fundamentally a direct 21-bit encoding scheme, as may be seen in the > attached document. So, I believe that the concept of surrogates is not > relevant for UTF-8 encoding on Code Planes above the BMP. > > This is a slightly different explanation of how UTF-8 works, written > by me for the Ultracode(r) bar code spec (Ultracode encodes all of > Unicode 3 directly). If any Unicodotti find any errors in it... please > let me know! You sent me a file that explains things, but its in word format (I think, its .doc) and I don't have MS Word. I have very few MS things fortunately. Just MSIE is all. Thanks anyhow. This whole bit encoding is kind of technical, and I guess I could do my own calculations and stuff to get some kind of feel for what the conversion code does to a character, but I was hoping more for some illustrative examples. Like, lets say we take character XX, and so first we see how many trailing chars it has like this, and etc giving a step by step example... Almost like code but with the intermediate values listed and explained. (Once again I almost sent this to ecartis) -- Theodore H. Smith - Macintosh Consultant / Contractor. My website: <www.elfdata.com/>
