From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Apr 22 2002 - 05:36:14 EDT
--- Karl Ove Hufthammer <huftis@bigfoot.com> wrote: >
Andrew Dunbar <hippietrail@yahoo.com> wrote in
>
news:20020422014326.50946.qmail@web9608.mail.yahoo.com:
>
> >> ISO 10646 calls UTF UCS.
> >
> > UCS is a Character Set.
> > UTF is a way to encode a character set.
>
> Yes, I know. I was a bit unclear. What I *meant* is
> that UCS-X is
> ~the same thing as UTF-YY. E.g. UCS-2 (in ISO 10646)
> equals UTF-16
> (in Unicode).
As far as I know, this only holds for UTF-32 == UCS-4.
UTF-16 supports surrogates and UCS-2 does not.
In practice this rule gets broken by Microsoft who
call their 16-bit format "Unicode" and it can behave
like either UCS-2 (default) or UTF-16 (registry
tweak).
Andrew Dunbar.
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