From: Carl W. Brown (cbrown@xnetinc.com)
Date: Mon Feb 23 2004 - 12:19:28 EST
Mark,
Markus did a good job of describing that advantages of each. The problem that I see is that there are applications that are not enabled to do BOM processing and convert from little-endian to big-endian and the other way around.
Are there any browsers that support Unicode but will not do endian flips for UTF-16? I usually use UTF-8 to send data between systems just to make sure.
Carl
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> To: steve; John Cowan
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> Subject: Re: unicode format
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> It is important to distinguish two cases: (a) which UTF one
> should emit in web
> pages , (b) which UTF one should use for internal processing.
> There is a tech
> note about this at http://www.unicode.org/notes/tn12/
>
> Mark
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Cowan" <cowan@ccil.org>
> To: "steve" <steve@appliedlanguage.com>
> Cc: <unicode@unicode.org>
> Sent: Mon, 2004 Feb 23 04:50
> Subject: Re: unicode format
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> > steve scripsit:
> >
> > > Could someone please clarify the difference between UTF8 and UFT16
> > > please? If it is possible to encode everything in UTF8 and it is more
> > > efficient what is the need for UTF16?
> >
> > The short version is that in UTF-8, characters can occupy 1, 2, 3, or
> > (very rarely) 4 bytes; in UTF-16, characters can occupy 2 or (very
> > rarely) 4 bytes. Either encoding can be used with any textual content.
> >
> > UTF-8 is typically more compact than UTF-16 for English and other
> > Latin-alphabet languages, slightly more compact for Greek, Cyrillic,
> > Armenian, Hebrew, and Arabic alphabets, and almost 50% less compact
> > for everything else.
> >
> > --
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> >
> >
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