Re: [NTLK] Special characters in owner info allowed?

From: Dan Mills (vthunder_at_gmail.com)
Date: Thu Aug 19 2004 - 18:27:12 PDT


On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 00:48:33 +0200, Sasa <sasa.radojcic_at_xs4all.nl> wrote:

> Unicode is the successor to ASCII. Where ASCII characters use 1 byte to
> represent a character and therefore have a maximum of 256 possible
> characters (8 bits, each with 2 possibilities) Unicode is based on a
> 2-byte representation, which will give you 65.356 possibilities (16

Actually, Unicode is just a catalog. What you are thinking of is
(probably) UTF-16, a 16-bit encoding scheme for Unicode. It is not
the only one, there is also UTF-8 for example, which is variable-witdh
and is actually the same as ASCII for the simple set.

More info at: http://unicode.org/

Sorry to nit-pick, just trying to be as correct as possible :-)

-Dan

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