Hello Peter, V>> My advice would be: please DONT use Unicode. That uses two bytes to V>> show e.g. a letter "a" instead of one. > Just to clarify this: Unicode != UTF-8! That's an important > difference!!! > Unicode is a character table that is capable of containing more than > the usual 8-bit char tables. > UTF-8 is an *ENCODING* of these characters. In short: UTF-8 says which > position in the Unicode-table the character is at. UTF-8 uses 8 bit > for standard ISO-8859 characters and 16 bit for "special" characters > (like e.g. German umlauts). V>> The world has chosen it because of laziness. Instead of sending the V>> charset and then a charcodes, people send a lot of byte 0 nowadays. > *ONLY* when using e.g. UTF-16 (or UCS-2) as character *encoding*. > So to sum up: albeit "Unicode" might be used as character set it's > not necessarily the case that 2 bytes get transferred, because the > *encoding* can make use of (only) 1 byte to _transfer_ the > information.
Thank you, I did not know this. -- Vili The Bat 4.0.18.3 on Windows XP 5.1 2600 Szervizcsomag 2 ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 4.0.18.6 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
