Yves Arrouye wrote: > > > On 03/08/2001 07:40:25 PM "Ayers, Mike" wrote: > > > > > > > If you really want to finish the job, there's always > > > UTF-32, which > > > >should do rather nicely until we meet the space aliens aith the > > > >4,293,853,186 character alphabet! > > > > > > Um... no. The 1,113,023 character alphabet (one more than the > > > encodable > > > scalar values in the codespace supported by UTF-8 / 16 / 32). > > > > > > > Um... no. The UTF-32 CES can handle much more than the current > > space of the Unicode CCS. As far as I can tell, it's good to > > go until we > > need more than 32 bits to represent the ACR. I'm actually > > surprised that > > this comment was so misunderstood. Ah, well... > > Since the U in UTF stands for Unicode, UTF-32 cannot represent more than > what Unicode encodes, which is is 1+ million code points. Otherwise, you're > talking about UCS-4. But I > thought that one of the latest revs of ISO 10646 explicitely specified that > UCS-4 will never encode more than what Unicode can encode, and thus > definitely these 4 billion characters you're alluding to. > > YA Isn't the U in UTF for UCS (Universal Character Set)? It was my understanding that except for possibly some header information & endianess, UTF-32 is the same as UCS-4 valuewise. The difference is that UTF-32 is an encoding, UCS-4 is a character representation scheme. Is this correct? If so, I don't think it's absolutely correct to say what range UTF-32 can represent. There's so many Uxx acronyms around that it's very confusing for a beginner. Correct me if I'm wrong - UCS-2, UCS-4, & Unicode are for talking about character representations. UTF-x mean encodings. BTW, thanks to all that have contributed comments to this thread. I'm finding the feedback very helpful. -allan
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