- From: Sigurd Lerstad <sigler@bredband.no>
- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 18:36:25 +0200
- To: "Bjoern Hoehrmann" <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Cc: <www-svg@w3.org>
> * Sigurd Lerstad wrote: > >> >In an XML file that says utf-8 in the xml declaration. There could be 4 > >> >byte characters later in the file. How should those be treated to convert > >> >them to utf-16? > >> > >> Just like any other sequence. U+10000 is F0 90 80 80 in UTF-8 and > >> D8 00 DC 00 or 00 D8 00 DC (depending on byte order) in UTF-16. > > >Okay, I feel stupid, I've purchased the utf-8 spec from iso, and they > >explain how to convert from utf-8 to ucs4, I'm afraid we're talking past one > >another. My question is simply: How can 4 bytes be represented in 2 bytes, > >it can't be done. what am I missing? > > That UTF-16 does not mean two bytes per character. As I've said, > characters above U+FFFF are represented using *four* bytes in UTF-16. But the DOM always uses 2 bytes per character doesn't it? So how can 4 bytes per character be represented by the DOM? -- Sigurd Lerstad
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