On 10/26/2010 12:32 PM, John Nagle wrote:
> On 10/19/2010 12:02 PM, Tobiah wrote:
>> I've been reading about the Unicode today.
>> I'm only vaguely understanding what it is
>> and how it works.
>>
>> Please correct my understanding where it is lacking.
>
> http://justfuckinggoogleit.com/
Neit
On 10/19/2010 12:02 PM, Tobiah wrote:
I've been reading about the Unicode today.
I'm only vaguely understanding what it is
and how it works.
Please correct my understanding where it is lacking.
http://justfuckinggoogleit.com/
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On 10/25/2010 2:36 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 10/25/2010 2:33 AM, Steve Holden wrote:
>> On 10/25/2010 1:42 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>> In message, Petite
>>> Abeille wrote:
>>>
Characters vs. Bytes
>>>
>>> And why do certain people insist on referring to bytes as “octets”?
>>
>> Becau
On 10/25/2010 2:33 AM, Steve Holden wrote:
On 10/25/2010 1:42 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
In message, Petite
Abeille wrote:
Characters vs. Bytes
And why do certain people insist on referring to bytes as “octets”?
Because back in the old days bytes were of varying sizes on different
arch
On 2010-10-25, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> In message , Petite
> Abeille wrote:
>> Characters vs. Bytes
> And why do certain people insist on referring to bytes as ???octets
One common reason is that there have been machines on which "bytes" were
not 8 bits. In particular, the usage of "b
On 10/25/2010 1:42 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> In message , Petite
> Abeille wrote:
>
>> Characters vs. Bytes
>
> And why do certain people insist on referring to bytes as “octets”?
Because back in the old days bytes were of varying sizes on different
architectures - indeed the DECSystem-1
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 10:43 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro
wrote:
> In message , Chris Rebert
> wrote:
>
>> There is no such thing as "plain Unicode representation".
>
> UCS-4 or UTF-16 probably come the closest.
How do you figure that?
Cheers,
Chris
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In message , Chris Rebert
wrote:
> There is no such thing as "plain Unicode representation".
UCS-4 or UTF-16 probably come the closest.
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In message , Petite
Abeille wrote:
> Characters vs. Bytes
And why do certain people insist on referring to bytes as “octets”?
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On Oct 19, 9:02 pm, Tobiah wrote:
> I've been reading about the Unicode today.
> I'm only vaguely understanding what it is
> and how it works.
>
...
> Thanks,
>
> Tobiah
Hi,
A good advice,
read this presentation,
http://farmdev.com/talks/unicode/
Explanation and advices for coding.
Olivier
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Tobiah wrote:
> I've been reading about the Unicode today.
> I'm only vaguely understanding what it is
> and how it works.
>
> Please correct my understanding where it is lacking.
> Unicode is really just a database of character information
> such as the name, unicode section, possible
> numeric
On 10/19/2010 4:31 PM, Tobiah wrote:
There is no such thing as "plain Unicode representation". The closest
thing would be an abstract sequence of Unicode codepoints (ala Python's
`unicode` type), but this is way too abstract to be used for
sharing/interchange, because storing anything in a file o
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Tobiah wrote:
>> There is no such thing as "plain Unicode representation". The closest
>> thing would be an abstract sequence of Unicode codepoints (ala Python's
>> `unicode` type), but this is way too abstract to be used for
>> sharing/interchange, because storing
On Oct 19, 2010, at 10:31 PM, Tobiah wrote:
> So why so many encoding schemes?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-time_tradeoff
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> There is no such thing as "plain Unicode representation". The closest
> thing would be an abstract sequence of Unicode codepoints (ala Python's
> `unicode` type), but this is way too abstract to be used for
> sharing/interchange, because storing anything in a file or sending it
> over a network u
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Tobiah wrote:
> I've been reading about the Unicode today.
> I'm only vaguely understanding what it is
> and how it works.
Petite Abeille already pointed to Joel's excellent primer on the
subject; I can only second their endorsement of his article.
> Please corr
Tobiah writes:
> would be shared? Why can't we just say "unicode is unicode"
> and just share files the way ASCII users do. Just have a huge
> ASCII style table that everyone sticks to.
I'm not sure that I understand you correctly, but UCS-2 and UCS-4
encodings are that kind of thing. Many pe
On Oct 19, 2010, at 9:02 PM, Tobiah wrote:
> Please enlighten my vague and probably ill-formed conception of this whole
> thing.
Hmmm... is there a question hidden somewhere in there or is it more open ended
in nature? :)
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