LL-L "Technica" 2004.11.19 (01) [E]

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From: Kenneth Rohde Christiansen <kenneth at gnu.org>
Subject: LL-L "Technica" 2004.11.18 (04) [E]

Hmm, UTF8 does allow you to mix languages as arabic with korean etc. It
is just ASCII-preserving. Of course you need to use a font that supports
the part of unicode that you need.

If this is not true, I have definately misunderstood something.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8

Kenneth

henry wrote

>UTF8 is more or less the standard 256-character ASCII set. And that only
>contains the regular Latin characters, plus a few variations on them, and
>some other often-used ones. It definitely doesn't include characters from
>Arabic and many other languages.
>
>If you really want to mix-and-match languages, set the encoding to UTF16.
>But that might be a problem for some mail programs (do I hear Outlook
people
>screaming?!)

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