Subject: Re: How does abiword store Unicode
From: Vlad Harchev (hvv@hippo.ru)
Date: Mon Nov 20 2000 - 10:04:41 CST
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Kevin Atkinson wrote:
Hi,
It stores as UCS2 (16bit uni-characters). UTF16 is needed only if there is a
need to support unicode values > 0xffff IMO.
>
> Does abiword store characters in UTF-16 or as 16-bit uni-characters?
> Pspell can handle 16-bit uni-characters but I don't think it can handle
> UTF-16. I said I don't think it can handle because I am not quite sure
> what it is. If abiword does use UTF-16 could someone send me some
> code snippets that translate UTF-16 to 32-bit uni-characters?
>
> I assume that UTF-16 is stored internally in the machines natural byte
> order....
>
> ---
> Kevin Atkinson
> kevina at users sourceforge net
> http://metalab.unc.edu/kevina/
>
Best regards,
-Vlad
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