In the second paragraph of ":help unicode", I read: << Unicode can be encoded in several ways. The two most popular ones are UCS-2, which uses 16-bit words and UTF-8, which uses one or more bytes for each character. >>
I think this should be updated. The two most popular ones are UTF-16 and UTF-8. From wikipedia, "UCS-2 is an obsolete character encoding which is a predecessor to UTF-16". Furthermore, strictly speaking, UCS-2 is not a Unicode encoding, since it can only represent characters in the Unicode page 0. UTF-16 and UCS-2 are too often confused with each other. Let's not add to the confusion in Vim help files. How about changing it to something like this... cvs diff: CVS password file /home/pel/.cvspass does not exist - creating a new file Index: mbyte.txt =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/vim/vim7/runtime/doc/mbyte.txt,v retrieving revision 1.27 diff -c -r1.27 mbyte.txt *** mbyte.txt 9 Aug 2008 17:46:58 -0000 1.27 --- mbyte.txt 14 Nov 2008 22:42:31 -0000 *************** *** 1246,1254 **** Unicode (with a few rarely used languages excluded). And it's mostly possible to mix these languages in one file, which is impossible with other encodings. ! Unicode can be encoded in several ways. The two most popular ones are UCS-2, ! which uses 16-bit words and UTF-8, which uses one or more bytes for each ! character. Vim can support all of these encodings, but always uses UTF-8 internally. --- 1246,1256 ---- Unicode (with a few rarely used languages excluded). And it's mostly possible to mix these languages in one file, which is impossible with other encodings. ! Unicode can be encoded in several ways. The two most popular ones are UTF-8 ! and UTF-16. UTF-8 uses one or more bytes for each character. UTF-16 uses ! a single 16-bits word for most characters, or a pair of 16-bits words ! (called surrogate pair) for rare characters beyond the Basic Multilingual ! Plane. Vim can support all of these encodings, but always uses UTF-8 internally. Regards -- Dominique --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
