- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 16:20:45 +0100
- To: "Musale, Shailendra" <Shailendra.Musale@F-Secure.com> ((by way of Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>))
- CC: www-international@w3.org
On Tuesday, 12 March, 2002, 06:14:34, Shailendra wrote: MS> Hello, MS> We have a software for Symbian OS. MS> We have software strings stored in text-only file format. MS> Earlier, when we localize this software into European languages, MS> we used UTF-8 encoding. MS> Now, we are going to localize this software into MS> Simplified & Traditional Chinese. MS> For Chinese localized files, should we use MS> UTF-8 encoding or UTF-16 encoding? You will get smaller filesizes, for predominantly Chines material, with UTF-16. Depending on the software, it might be advantageous to stick with a single encoding, in which case use UTF-8; if that isn't a factor,use UTF-16. -- Chris mailto:chris@w3.org
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