Messages in this thread | | | From | "Andrew E. Mileski" <> | Subject | Re: Msdos name alias patch for 2.1.48 | Date | Tue, 12 Aug 1997 01:55:57 -0400 (EDT) |
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> > The OSTA-UDF(tm) filesystem I'm working on supports compressed Unicode. > > Basically, the first byte is a flag inidcating how to expand the following > > bytes: > > 8 = high byte is 0 and low byte is from data stream > > 16 = high byte is followed by low byte in the data stream > > By the ISO standards, this is CS0 or a character set defined by agreement. > > Not yet another Unicode encoding format?! What's wrong with > UTF-8? Not Invented Here?
UTF-8 maps Unicode to a font as Unicode does not specify how a character appears, but rather Unicode differentiates characters from each other.
-- Andrew E. Mileski mailto:aem@netcom.ca
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