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Re: UTF-8 charset [message #180862 is a reply to message #180854] Fri, 22 March 2013 08:46 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
M. Strobel is currently offline  M. Strobel
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Am 22.03.2013 01:17, schrieb Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn:
> M. Strobel wrote:
>

>> So UTF-8 is THE solution. There must be some progress sometime.
>
> ACK.
>
>> ASCII, 7-bit encodings and octal are left behind.
>
> US-ASCII *is* a 7-bit encoding. “Octal”?
>

strobel@suse122-intel:~> php -a
Interactive mode enabled

php > echo 071, PHP_EOL;
57
php > echo 070, PHP_EOL;
56
php >

> The most important thing about UTF-8 is that it is equivalent to US-ASCII
> for code points below U+0080 (one 8-bit code unit per character, the MSB is
> always 0, encodes the same characters as in US-ASCII). Therefore, UTF-8,
> through Unicode, allows texts with the greatest possible range of characters
> (all written languages, even some extinct ones, common symbols, punctuation
> etc.) while using the least amount of memory when this range is _not_ fully
> used.
>
> Actually, it should not be necessary to explain all this to people
> subscribed to a programming newsgroup, and to Web developers in particular,
> but there you are.

+1

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