RE: [Phpvideopro-developers] About UTF-8

[Tom A. <to...@ko...>]

Maybe I missed somethings, but the other day I saw some funtions
in php, to convert text to utf (or something). But isn't xml
rather standard and will it not cover this problem? Not that i
like it, but ...


Tom

> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van:
> php...@li...
> [mailto:php...@li...urceforge.
> net]Namens Leszek Boroch
> Verzonden: woensdag 5 september 2001 21:25
> Aan: phpvideopro-developers
> Onderwerp: [Phpvideopro-developers] About UTF-8
>
>
> >From http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html
>
>
> Because of these difficulties, the major Linux
> distributors and application
> developers now foresee and hope that Unicode will
> eventually replace all
> these older legacy encodings, primarily in the UTF-8
> form. UTF-8 will be
> used in
>
> text files (source code, HTML files, email messages, etc.)
> file names
> standard input and standard output, pipes
> environment variables
> cut and paste selection buffers
> telnet, modem, and serial port connections to terminal
> emulators
> and in any other places where byte sequences used to
> be interpreted in ASCII
> In UTF-8 mode, terminal emulators such as xterm or the
> Linux console driver
> transform every keystroke into the corresponding UTF-8
> sequence and send it
> to the stdin of the foreground process. Similarly, any
> output of a process
> on stdout is sent to the terminal emulator, where it
> is processed with a
> UTF-8 decoder and then displayed using a 16-bit font.
>
> Full Unicode functionality with all bells and whistles
> (e.g. high-quality
> typesetting of the Arabic and Indic scripts) can only
> be expected from
> sophisticated multi-lingual word-processing packages.
> What Linux will use on
> a broad base to replace ASCII and the other 8-bit
> character sets is far
> simpler. Linux terminal emulators and command line
> tools will in the first
> step only switch to UTF-8. This means that only a
> Level 1 implementation of
> ISO 10646-1 is used (no combining characters), and
> only scripts such as
> Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Armenian, Georgian, CJK, and
> many scientific symbols
> are supported that need no further processing support.
> At this level, UCS
> support is very comparable to ISO 8859 support and the
> only significant
> difference is that we have now thousands of different
> characters available,
> that characters can be represented by multibyte
> sequences, and that
> ideographic Chinese/Japanese/Korean characters require
> two terminal
> character positions (double-width).
>
>
> ---
> Leszek Boroch
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