Re: For review: Character encodings for beginners

At 08:29 07/12/07, Douglas Bagnall wrote:
>
>Frank Ellermann wrote:

>> You'd need a definition of the shorthand "charset" first,
>
>That could be at
>
>- Characters are grouped into a *character* *set* (also called a
>- *repertoire*),
>
>+ Characters are grouped into a *character* *set* (also called a
>+ *repertoire* or *charset*),

No, sorry, wrong, a "charset" includes the coding mechanism
down to the bit/byte level.

>> | Most Web pages use the UTF-8 encoding for Unicode text.
>[...] 
>> Are you sure about "most Web pages" (as of today) ?
>
>This evoked a double take from me, too.  I had to re-read to see that
>"for Unicode text" was making a much smaller claim than I first thought.
>In the sense in which it is meant, however (UTF-8 is more common than
>UTF-[7,16,32] variants), it seems very likely true.

Somewhat similar for me, too. I'm sure that we can tweak the wording
so that it's easier to read.

Regards,    Martin.


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