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- From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- To: "James Tauber" <jtauber@jtauber.com>, <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 09:29:27 -0800
At 06:04 AM 11/17/99 -0500, James Tauber wrote:
>UTF-16, however, only gives access to the equivalent of Unicode with the
>surrogate extension mechanism, ie the first 17 planes of the UCS.
Right, a mere million extra characters in excess of what we're using now.
This feels like a pretty low-risk option to me.
In terms of actual usability, there's effectively no difference between
UTF-16 and UTF-8. UTF-16 seems to be an easier sell in Japan for reasons
that I've not fully understood.
What's really happening, near as I can tell, is that C programmers use
UTF-8 and Java programmers use UTF-16, regardless of where they're from.
Fortunately, this particular conversion is easy and requires no tables. -T.
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