Re: Confusion between UTF-8 and Unicode

From: Bryce (spamtrap_at_berzerker-soft.com)
Date: 03/17/05 

Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 17:32:05 -0500

On 17 Mar 2005 01:38:03 -0800, "blake.ong@gmail.com"
<blake.ong@gmail.com> wrote:

>Is it true that a webpage for example... which uses Unicode can display
>different languages in the same webpage? while UTF-8 cant....?

A webpage can't "use" Unicode. It is either UTF-8, or some other
encoding. 

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