On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 12:26:06 -0700 "Doug Ewell" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. I haven't memorised those page numbers; I just though quoting the actual page numbers would give emphasis to my point. Richard.
