Re: 8 bits preference?

This is what Govt. of TAMILNADU, INDIA has mandated:

In the report, the Committee recommended that Tamil Nadu Government migrate
from all legacy 8-bit encodings like TAB/TAM as well as other proprietary
encoding to 16-bit encoding. The Committee recommended Unicode as the main
16-bit encoding to be used in all applications where support for Tamil is
available.

*Is this 16-Bit encoding ?

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On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Jonathan Rosenne <
jonathan.rosenne_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Because it is the most convenient byte size, considering that computers are
> binary.
>
> I did once, in 1963, work on a computer with a byte size of 15, but I don't
> think it was very convenient for textual data. We packed two 6 bit BCD
> characters in each byte. Before that I worked on a computer with a word size
> of 48 bits, and we packed eight 6 bit BCD characters in each word. Only
> slightly less inconvenient. And getting the text to include Hebrew and
> English required additional information, not directly encoded.
>
> Thank goodness we are where we are today with Unicode.
>
> Jony
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: unicode-bounce_at_unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce_at_unicode.org] On
> > Behalf Of anbu_at_peoplestring.com
> > Sent: Monday, June 27, 2011 8:54 PM
> > To: unicode_at_unicode.org
> > Subject: 8 bits preference?
> >
> > Why are codes preferred in multiples of 8?
> >
> > Anbu
>
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Received on Mon Jun 27 2011 - 16:48:04 CDT