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Old 11-28-2007
Michael Fesser
 
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Default Re: Character Set Question

..oO(Zach)

>Adrian Nievergelt qrote:
>
>"...The only problem with UTF-8 is that some operating systems .... have
>no or hardly sufficient support. About every modern system can handle
>unicode though..."
>
>Question:
>
>is iso-8859-1 unicode?


No.

>is utf-8 unicode?


No. But UTF-8 is an encoding for Unicode, where all characters are
encoded as a sequence of 1 to 4 bytes.

>What is unicode?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode

Micha
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