On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 03:39:45AM -0700, Fritz Bayer <fritz-bayer@xxxxxx> wrote a message of 53 lines which said: > I mean unicode itself is 16 bit long. This is completely false. Unicode itself is just a table and, since it contains more than 100,000 characters, you cannot index them with 16 bits. Unicode has various encodings, some fixed-size, like UTF-32, some not. > So "münchen" should expand to 14 characters. But only ü expands to > two characters. Perfectly normal with UTF-8, where the size of an Unicode charactere is not fixed. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
