From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2010-11-26T00:05:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.8 vs 1.9

On Nov 25, 2010, at 8:48 AM, Philip Rhoades wrote:

> 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?

Do these explanations help?

  http://blog.grayproductions.net/articles/what_is_a_character_encoding

  http://blog.grayproductions.net/articles/the_unicode_character_set_and_encodings

James Edward Gray II