Re: [xml-dev] Use of UTF-8 and UTF-16

From
Philippe Poulard <>
To
Elliotte Harold <>
Date
2005-11-02T14:04:51Z
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Re: [xml-dev] Use of UTF-8 and UTF-16
Elliotte Harold wrote:
> Rick Jelliffe wrote:
> 
>> For CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) XML documents, where three (or six)
>> bytes may be used by UTF-8 instead of UCS-16's two (or four), UTF-16 
>> files
>> will usually be smaller.
> 
> 
> First a correction: UTF-8 never uses six bytes for anything. The largest 
> UTF-8 character you'll ever see is 4 bytes wide.
> 

hi,

I read somewhere that :

UTF-8 uses 6 bytes for ISO/IEC 10646
UTF-8 uses 4 bytes for Unicode

Unicode is a subset of ISO/IEC 10646 (in terms of addressing)
ISO/IEC 10646 is a subset of Unicode (in terms of semantic)

XML uses Unicode

-- 
Cordialement,

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