UTF-8 (8-bit Unicode Transformation Format) is a lossless, variable-length character encoding for Unicode created by Ken Thompson and Rob Pike. It uses groups of bytes to represent the Unicode standard for the alphabets of many of the world's languages. UTF-8 is especially useful for transmission over 8-bit Electronic Mail systems. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8
In computing, Unicode provides an international standard which has the goal of providing the means to encode the text of every document people want to store on computers. This includes all scripts in active use today, many scripts known only by scholars, and symbols which do not strictly represent scripts, like mathematical, linguistic and APL symbols. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : >Hi, > >In Europe we have lots of languages. I don't think it's true that UTF-8 can >handle ALL european character very well.There is a list in the net (I don't >know here) with the other ISO encoding for other languages. > >AF > >Citando David Delbecq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >>Hi, >> >>UTF-8 can handle european and chinese character very well. >>If you can't read using utf-8 any of those this simply >>mean you text file is not saved in utf-8. >> >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : >> >> >> >>>Hi, >>>I am trying to read the universal charater form a text file to my java >>>application that stores them in database. When I use encoding type "GBK" i >>>can read all special charater in chinease, when i use encoding "ISO-8859-1" >>>i can read latin but not chinease , but whn i use encoding as "UTF-8" i >>>think i ma supposed to read both chinease and latin correctly but i am not >>>able to read any of them. Can any one give me the pointers for solution , >>>Further the beta- is converted to ss in latin-1 >>> >>>thanks in advance >>>Birendar S Waldiya >>> >>> >>>Notice: The information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments >>> >>> >>to it may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not >>the intended recipient, any dissemination, use, review, distribution, >>printing or copying of the information contained in this e-mail message >>and/or attachments to it are strictly prohibited. If you have received this >>communication in error, please notify us by reply e-mail or telephone and >>immediately and permanently delete the message and any attachments. Thank >>you >> >> >>>--------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>--------------------------------------------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> >> > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]