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Teaser Tuesday - Unicode Support


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  • Vectorworks, Inc Employee

By analogy you can put text in a Word document, or text in a PDF; the person you hand it to needs to know what file type they're getting to know whether they can handle it.

 

Essentially UTF8 starts with one byte for an ordinary character (so is somewhat compatible with ascii) and it grows to 2, 3, or 4 bytes as needed to fit a specific extended char. UTF16 starts with 2 bytes and doesn't ever pretend to be ascii.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode#UTF

 

Edited by Rick Berge
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