From: Philip Rhoades <phil@...>
Date: 2010-11-25T23:48:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.8 vs 1.9

James,


On 2010-11-26 00:55, James Edward Gray II wrote:
> On Nov 25, 2010, at 6:37 AM, Phillip Gawlowski wrote:
>
>> Thus, UTF-8 is a subset of UTF-16 is a subset of UTF-16. Thus,
>> also, the future-proofing, in case even more glyphs are needed.
>
> You are confusing us.
>
> UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32 are encodings of Unicode code points.  They
> are all capable of representing all code points.  Nothing in this
> discussion is a subset of anything else.


This is all really interesting but I don't understand what you mean by 
"code points" - is what you have said expressed diagrammatically somewhere?

Thanks,

Phil.
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