On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 8:24 PM, Jacob Carlborg <d...@me.com> wrote: > Don't know if that makes it clearer.
It does! Particularly this: > All these encodings can store *every* character in the Unicode standard. > What's > different is how the characters are stored and how many bytes a single > character takes to store in the string. (emphasis mine) I somehow thought that with UTF-8 you were limited to a part of Unicode, and to another, bigger part with UTF-16. I equated Unicode with UTF-32. This is what completely warped my vision. It's good to learn something new everyday, I guess. Thanks Jacob!