Re: [Indic-computing-users] unicode

[Guntupalli K. <kar...@fr...>]

On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 18:55:34 +0530 (IST)
Viveka Nathan K <vi...@la...> wrote:

> 
>  I used the isc2unicode convertor to convert the po file from iscii
>  to unicode. What  I found is, for each iscii character, there are 
>  3 characters (unicode). Why it is like that ?
>   
>  For example, a word in iscii encoding has 6 characters, but after
>  converted it into unicode, there are 18 characters. what is the
>  reason ?
> 
 Unicode characters are stored in UTF-8 , for Indic range it takes 3
bytes for a character. Read  man utf-8 for more on how the encoding is
done

Regards,
Karunakar