Bob wrtote:
The real question is whether unicode is even relevant now that the UTF series is available.
Ashley answered:
Bob, UTF is unicode (Unicode Transformation Format)
Yes, Ashley is correct. UTF-8 is Unicode, as is UTF-16 and UTF-32, which all use different a number of bytes for each code point. Both UTF-8 and UTF-16 are variable length whereas UTF-32 is a fixed length of four bytes per code point.
As is my understanding, UTF-8 will accommodate all the languages (glyphs) of the world and then some. It will be a while before we need UTF-16 or UTF-32 but those are just a larger super-sets.
In any event, I always use UTF-8 in all my encoding. Cheers, tedd -- ------- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
