Re: Question: the german umlaut

From: James E. Agenbroad (jage@loc.gov)
Date: Fri Nov 08 2002 - 16:03:38 EST

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    On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Magda Danish (Unicode) wrote:

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    > > Date/Time: Fri Nov 8 09:05:40 EST 2002
    > > Contact: mrmagnusrosenberg@hotmail.com
    > > Report Type: Other Question, Problem, or Feedback
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    > > Hello
    > >
    > > I just wanted to know how much space in bytes the Latin-1
    > > characters such as the german umlaut characters take up in
    > > UTF-8 encoding. Is it still just one byte or does it now
    > > require 2 bytes?
    > >
    > > Regards,
    > >
    > > Magnus Rosenberg
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                                               Friday, November 8, 2002
    Mr. Rosenberg,
         Without delving into the issues of separately encoded combining
    characters vs. precomposed combinations I think the short answer is that
    in UTF-8 all Unicode characters except those with ASCII codes 00 to 7F
    are two or more bytes long. If I'm wrong others will corret me.
         Regards,
              Jim Agenbroad ( jage@LOC.gov )
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