Re: UTF8 encoding

[Robert H. <en...@no...>]

On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 12:37 -0700, Ethan Merritt wrote:

> As I understand it, a single character glyph may have more than one legal
> representation in UTF-8.  So =E4 =F6 =FC each have a one-byte representat=
ion
> (\344 \366 \374 if the encoding is iso8559-1 or iso8559-15) and also have
> a multibyte unicode representation (C3A4 C3B6 C3BC).

I think you are confused. In UTF-8 only characters 0-127 are encoded in
one byte. There is no equivalence between UTF-8 and iso8559-* except for
the basic ASCII part.

i.e. any characters with accents, or in foreign scripts are always
multibyte in UTF-8.

see, http://en.wikipedia.org/en/utf-8/

Interestingly gnuplot fails to detect my locale. I have
LANG=3Den_GB.UTF-8, but gnuplot falls back to C. I will investigate
further when I have the time.

Rob

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Robert Hart <en...@no...>
University of Nottingham


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