Changes between Version 2 and Version 3 of CharacterSets

Timestamp:

04/15/05 10:46:29 (8 years ago)

Author:

gogo (IP: 203.79.122.38)

Comment:

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CharacterSets

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-[wiki:CharacterSets#stopwaffle Skip to the advice.]
+[http://xinha.python-hosting.com/wiki/CharacterSets#stopwaffle Skip to the advice.]
 
 
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 == UTF-8 ==
 
-UTF-8 is just a character encoding, it says "take a string of bytes, do this algorithm over them, and you'll get a list of numbers which represent characters in the UNICODE character set".  The special thing about UNICODE is that it leaves the lower (127 characters) of ASCII intact (remembering that these characters are unchanged in UNICODE), so for most english text, UTF-8 encoded UNICODE is just the same as ASCII (which as you might expect is quite useful).
+UTF-8 is just a character encoding, it says "take a string of bytes, do this algorithm over them, and you'll get a list of numbers which represent characters in the UNICODE character set".  The special thing about UTF-8 is that it leaves the lower (127 characters) of ASCII intact (remembering that these characters are unchanged in UNICODE), so for most english text, UTF-8 encoded UNICODE is identical to plain old 7-bit ASCII (which as you might expect is quite useful).
 
 Slowly but surely the world is progessing to ONE character set (UNICODE) and ONE encoding (UTF-8), gone will be ASCII, BIG-5, SHIFT-JIS, and all those other character sets and encodings, never to darken our doorstep again.
 
-'''The important thing is''' - UTF-8 is ONLY used to get characters INTO Javascript, once it's there, that's it, it's just a list of numbers, nothing more, nothing less, just a list of numbers which represent characters in the UNICODE character set.  Not BIG-5, not ASCII, just UNICODE.
+'''The important thing is''' - UTF-8, and any other character encoding, is ONLY used to get characters IN TO Javascript, once it's there, that's it, it's just a list of numbers which are indexes into the big UNICODE character tables, nothing more, nothing less.  Not BIG-5, not ASCII, not even UTF-8 anymore, it's just UNICODE index numbers.
 
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