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   Re: unicode confusion

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  • From: Steve Schafer <pandeng@telepath.com>
  • To: xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
  • Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 13:25:04 -0600

On Tue, 4 Jan 2000 13:37:45 -0500 (GMT+5), "Fabio Arciniegas A."
<l-arcini@uniandes.edu.co> wrote:

>Err... David, I thought Java used UTF-8, actually a version slightly
>different from the "typical" version that expresses:
>Characters in the range  \u0001 to \u007F in one byte: 0[bits 0-6]
>Characters in the range  \u0080 to \u07FF and \u0000 in two bytes:
>110[bits 7 -10]  10[bits 0-6]
>Characters in the range  \u0800 to \uFFFF in three bytes: 1110[bits 12-15] 
>10[bits 6-11] 10[bits 0-5]

I think he's talking about the _internal_ character format, which is
indeed UTF-16 (without the surrogates).

-Steve Schafer


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