John Salerno wrote: > Robert Kern wrote: > >> http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html > > That was fascinating. Thank you. So as it turns out, Unicode and UTF-8 > are not the same thing? Am I right to say that UTF-8 stores the first > 128 Unicode code points in a single byte, and then stores higher code > points in however many bytes they may need? If so, I guess I had been > mislead by the '8' in the name, thinking that UTF-8 was another way of > storing characters in one byte (which would make it no different than > Latin-1, I suppose).
That's all correct, except for the last parenthetical remark: using a single-byte character set isn't the same as using Latin-1. There are various single-byte characters sets; they have names like Latin-2, Latin-5, Latin-15, KOI8-R, CP437, windows-1252, and so on. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
