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- From: John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>
- To: XML Dev <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 11:02:59 -0400
Deke Smith asked about Gavin Thomas Nicol's remark:
> >Remember: byte != character code != character != glyph
A character code may be more than one byte long, but is always
an integer. A character is an abstract object which can be
represented by different character codes in different coded
character sets (ASCII, EBCDIC/US, JIS X 0208, etc.)
Glyphs are abstractions of *appearance*, whereas characters are
abstractions of *function*.
> ISO-10646-UCS-2
> ISO-10646-UCS-4
> ISO-10646-UTF-1
> ISO-10646-Unicode-Latin1
> ISO-10646-J-1
> UNICODE-1-1
> UNICODE-1-1-UTF-7
> UTF-7
> UTF-8
ISO-10646-UCS-2 is near enough UTF-16; UTF-16 only implies that
surrogates are correctly processed, and decent UCS-2 implementations
will at worst leave surrogates alone.
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org
You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn.
You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn.
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