UTF-8 and UTF-16

• From: Stephen Toner <Stephen.Toner@virtualaccess.com>
• Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2000 07:14:24 +0900
• To: www-international@w3.org
• Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.J.20000908071413.03a47850@sh.w3.mag.keio.ac.jp>

Hi,
The input from my web page is in the UTF-8 form, but my database uses 
UTF-16/UCS-2.  I was wondering if there were any Java converters out there 
that could do this conversion, or if it would be simple enough to try and 
change an existing C one to perform the same task.  I was also wondering 
why UTF-8 could not be just stored as a character string in the 
Database.  If the characters are now 8-bit surely they could be represented 
by the ordinary character set in the database.
Any help would be appreciated because I feel like I'm banging my head off a 
brick wall at the minute.
Thanks,
Stephen

Received on Thursday, 7 September 2000 18:23:01 UTC