- From: Michael \(michka\) Kaplan <michka@trigeminal.com>
- Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2000 14:10:25 +0900
- To: www-international@w3.org
> >and consider UTF-8 to be a multibyte encoding. > > There is nothing wrong with this. UTF-8 is a very proper multibyte > encoding. It's smallest interpretable element is a byte, and like all > multibyte encodings, each character is encoded by a byte sequence which may > have one of several lenghts, in > this case 1, 2, 3 or 4 bytes. You know that and I know that... I have been involved with HUGE arguments over this topic with many people, some of whom are regular contributos to the i18n-prog@acoin.com list. One person came close to blaming me personally for the fact that an API such as WideCharToMultiByte would be used to covert UCS-2 to UTF-8 -- as if I really had thing one to do with it! :-) michka
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