RE: Can a single text document use multiple character encodings?

2013-08-29 Thread Michel Suignard
For interested parties, ISO/IEC 10646:2012[1] clauses 11 and 12 contain long descriptions on how to identify the various UCS encoding scheme in ISO/IEC 2022, including necessary padding when using encoding schemes other than UTF-8. So it is in theory possible to mix UTF-8 and UTF-16 or even UTF3

RE: What to backup after corruption of code units?

2013-08-29 Thread Whistler, Ken
> The text in question is not exactly new to Unicode 6.2, probably goes > back to around the time > UTF-8 and UTF-16 were added over a decade ago. Getting a single question > on this passage after all these years would seem to indicate that > confusion isn't exactly rampant. Just to address the t