Buck Golemon <buck at yelp dot com> replied to Richard Wordingham <richard dot wordingham at ntlworld dot com>:
>>> There are no Unicode code pages. >> >> Just to be pedantic, there are several on Windows. They encode the >> coding form (Unicode codes being best thought of as an assignment of >> natural numbers to characters, with certain approved ways of storing >> those numbers), e.g. Code pages 1200 (little-endian UTF-16), 1201 >> (big-endian UTF-16), 12000 (little-endian UTF-32), 12001 (big-endian >> UTF-32), 65000 (UTF-7) and 65001 (UTF-8). > > I shudder to imagine the circumstances that forced you to learn this > information. Most Windows .NET developers who are concerned about proper character handling would know this information existed, though they might not have the numbers memorized. Jukka was right, though: Unicode itself does not have code pages. Rather, at least one vendor has defined some of the Unicode encoding schemes as if they were code pages. A code page is not, in general, the same as an encoding scheme. -- Doug Ewell | Thornton, CO, USA http://ewellic.org | @DougEwell
