--- Karl Ove Hufthammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Dunbar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > >> 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. ===== http://linguaphile.sourceforge.net http://www.abisource.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com
