Re: Unicode or UTF-8 ??

[Imed Chihi <Ichihi at sprintlabs dot com>]

Hi,

UTF-8 is an encoding of Unicode. Unicode per se is an abstract character
set and can be either represented by plain 16-bit values or as UTF-8
one-byte or two-byte values.

The nicety about UTF-8 is that it's compatible with ASCI, that is ASCII
characters have the same one-byte representation in ASCII and UTF-8.
Besides ASCII characters stored in Unicode in the UTF-8 encoding take
only one byte per character.

UTF-8 is for Unicode what gzip can be for HTTP content.

	-Imed


Isam Bayazidi wrote:
> 
> Salam Mohammed ...
>         So we will work now in UTF-8 instead of Unicode ?
>         When I wanted to see the diff. between two revisions in the CVSWEB it
> didn't work, although all the links are there.. is it working ?
> 
>         By the way, good Job Moh'd Gamal :)
> 
>                 Take Care All
>                         Isam Bayazidi
> 
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