UniCode

Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk qrczak@knm.org.pl
5 Oct 2001 11:50:34 GMT


Fri, 5 Oct 2001 02:29:51 -0700 (PDT), Krasimir Angelov <ka2_mail@yahoo.com> pisze:

> Why Char is 32 bit. UniCode characters is 16 bit.

No, Unicode characters have 21 bits (range U+0000..10FFFF).

They used to fit in 16 bits a long time ago, and they are sometimes
encoded as UTF-16 (each character occupies one or two 16-bit words).

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