- From: <Irene.Vatton@inrialpes.fr>
- Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 18:06:59 +0200
- To: Andrew Pam <xanni@glasswings.com.au>
- cc: Irene.Vatton@inrialpes.fr, Riccardo Cohen <rcohen@dial.oleane.com>, www-amaya@w3.org
In-reply-to: Your message of Thu, 18 May 2000 01:44:30 +1000."
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> On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 05:06:01PM +0200, Irene.Vatton@inrialpes.fr wrote:
> > > I believe ISO-latin-1 also maps to the first 256 characters of Unicode.
> >
> > You're right if you only consider the value of characters but the encoding
> > UTF-16 or UTF-8 differs from the ISO encoding.
>
> Actually only UTF-8 differs. I belive ISO-latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) exactly
> maps to UTF-16 when zero extended (zero high byte).
When you are reading a file it's different: you have to read one byte in one
case and two bytes in the other case.
Received on Wednesday, 17 May 2000 12:07:22 UTC