From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2006-03-14T15:07:01+09:00
Subject: Re: unicode in ruby

On 3/13/06, Anthony DeRobertis <aderobertis@metrics.net> wrote:> >> UTF-8 can take multiple octets to represent a character. So can> >> UTF-16, UTF-32, and every other variation of Unicode.> > This last statement is true only because you use the term "octet."> You're correct; that isn't what I meant to say. Something along the> lines of the following is better worded:>>         UTF-8 can take more than one octet to represent a>         character; UTF-16 can take more than two; UTF-32>         more than four; etc.
No. UTF-32 does not have surrogates. Unicode is perfectlyrepresentable in either 20 or 21 bits. A single character is *always*representable in a uint32_t sized space with UTF-32.
POSIX is outdated and needs to be scrapped or fixed. Preferably theformer. Preferably by people who know what they're doing -- and notthe folks behind the GNU libc.
-austin--Austin Ziegler * halostatue@gmail.com               * Alternate: austin@halostatue.ca