Re: UTF-8 and UTF-16

From: Michael \(michka\) Kaplan (michka@trigeminal.com)
Date: Thu Oct 05 2000 - 18:57:06 EDT


UTF-8 supports everything that UTF-16 does. They are two different encodings
of the same set of code points.

michka

----- Original Message -----
From: "George Zeigler" <genz1968@mtu-net.ru>
To: "Unicode List" <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 3:15 PM
Subject: UTF-8 and UTF-16

> Hello,
>
> someone send me a FAQ page that explains the difference between UTF-8
and
> Unicode (UTF-16 I suppose). UTF-8 if I understand correctly only supports
> European characters, where as UTF-16 supports all major characters world
wide.
> I notice that our browser has UTF-7 and UTF-8.
>
> Thanks
> George
>



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