[Ifp-driver-common] Re: Announce: ifp_gui 0.10.4

[Geoff O. <oa...@us...>]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 10:13:50PM -0600, jdc wrote:
> Can anyone answer this question; is unicode utf-8 or utf-16?

Both.  utf8 and utf16 are different ways of representing unicode
characters.  The main advantage to utf8 is it's backwards compatible
with ASCII character set (the 7 bit version).  In UTF8, a single
character can span 1 to 8 bytes in length.

UTF16 is similar, but characters are 2 or 4 bytes each.  In practice,
the most common languages' characters (including Korean) are represented
as two bytes UTF16.

Read all about it on wikipedia:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode

Geoff