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- To: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Use of UTF-8 and UTF-16
- From: Philippe Poulard <Philippe.Poulard@sophia.inria.fr>
- Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 15:04:51 +0100
- Cc: Rick Jelliffe <rjelliffe@allette.com.au>, Xml-Dev <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
- In-reply-to: <43660951.3090707@metalab.unc.edu>
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Elliotte Harold wrote:
> Rick Jelliffe wrote:
>
>> For CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) XML documents, where three (or six)
>> bytes may be used by UTF-8 instead of UCS-16's two (or four), UTF-16
>> files
>> will usually be smaller.
>
>
> First a correction: UTF-8 never uses six bytes for anything. The largest
> UTF-8 character you'll ever see is 4 bytes wide.
>
hi,
I read somewhere that :
UTF-8 uses 6 bytes for ISO/IEC 10646
UTF-8 uses 4 bytes for Unicode
Unicode is a subset of ISO/IEC 10646 (in terms of addressing)
ISO/IEC 10646 is a subset of Unicode (in terms of semantic)
XML uses Unicode
--
Cordialement,
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