Re: Confusion between UTF-8 and Unicode

From: Edwin Martin (e.j.martin_at_chello.nl)
Date: 03/17/05 

Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 23:31:47 GMT

Celia wrote:
> I've looked up UTF-8 and Unicode in the Wikipedia, and at Dictionary.com,
> but I'm not grokking it yet.

UTF-8 is an encoding of Unicode in such a way that a plain ASCII file is
also a valid UTF-8 file (with the same contents, ofcourse).

See also:

The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively
Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html

Edwin Martin 

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http://www.bitstorm.org/edwin/en/

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