- From: Dan Chiba <dan.chiba@oracle.com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:06:09 -0700
- To: public-i18n-core@w3.org
FAQ: Upgrading from language-specific legacy encoding to Unicode encoding http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-utf8-upgrade.en.php "In addition, many legacy encodings for complex scripts are already double-byte, eg, Chinese." "Characters that do not fall into the ASCII range, such as Chinese, Arabic, Russian, may use 2 or even 3 bytes. Chinese encodings already use more than 1 byte per character with legacy encodings, where they use double bytes." These would be more accurate if revised to: "In addition, many legacy encodings for complex scripts are already multibyte, eg, Chinese." "Characters that do not fall into the ASCII range, such as Chinese, Arabic, Russian, may use 2, 3 or even 4 bytes. Chinese encodings already use more than 1 byte per character with legacy encodings, where they normally use 2 or 3 bytes." Regards, -Dan
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