UTF-8 vs UTF-16...? (Was: Feeling good about SML)

[Eric Bohlman]

On 17 Nov 1999, Steinar Bang wrote:

> >>>>> "Don Park" <donpark at docuverse.com>:
> 
> > I was born in Korea so I appreciate your position.  However, your
> > opposition of SML is based on the assumption that SML will only
> > support UTF-8.  The list of SML features is preliminary and,
> > personally, I do not mind seeing SML support both UTF-8 and UTF-16
> > although not necessarily at the same time since the application
> > might require either encoding but not both.
> 
> Er... AFAIK you can represent the exactly the same characters in UTF-8
> and UTF-16, since both are transformation formats of the full 32 bit
> Unicode.  Maybe I'm missing something here...?

I think his point was that UTF-8 imposes a 50% size penalty over UTF-16
for typical CJKV text.



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