Comments on: Unicode, wxWidgets, and I http://www.wilcoxd.com/blog/unicode-wxwidgets-and-i.html Blog for project status and lab notes Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:29:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: Ryan Wilcox http://www.wilcoxd.com/blog/unicode-wxwidgets-and-i.html#comment-21 Sun, 05 Sep 2004 14:23:20 +0000 http://www.wilcoxd.com/blog/unicode-wxwidgets-and-i.html#comment-21 Yves, Thanks for the information. As I said in the prefix to this article, I'm not a Uicode expert, so I know I missed things. Thanks for the little bit of extra information. Like many other North American, English speaking programmers, I often 'forget' about encodings like Chinese... but I did say '8 bit encoded characters typically...' (and left the non-8-bit encoded characters unspecified). A blog is (often times) about learning. Sometimes it's my learning :). Thanks, _Ryan Wilcox Yves,

Thanks for the information. As I said in the prefix to this article, I’m not a Uicode expert, so I know I missed things. Thanks for the little bit of extra information.

Like many other North American, English speaking programmers, I often ‘forget’ about encodings like Chinese… but I did say ‘8 bit encoded characters typically…’ (and left the non-8-bit encoded characters unspecified).

A blog is (often times) about learning. Sometimes it’s my learning :).

Thanks,
_Ryan Wilcox

]]> by: Yves M http://www.wilcoxd.com/blog/unicode-wxwidgets-and-i.html#comment-20 Sat, 04 Sep 2004 20:46:44 +0000 http://www.wilcoxd.com/blog/unicode-wxwidgets-and-i.html#comment-20 Several things: Multibyte codepages (MBCS) don't have to be 8 bits per character at all. Check for example the Japanese Shift JS and the various encodings for Chinese. They also have several bytes for a character. You seem to think that Unicode is equal to UTF-16. This is a common misconception unfortunately. Unicode in itself is only a big table that relates characters to numbers. UTF stands for Unicode Transformation Format and it means that it's a means of encoding Unicode. There are several UTF encodings, like UTF-16 and UTF-8. Not all characters in UTF-16 are two bytes, some are four bytes (check up on surrogates at Unicode.org) You're on the right track, but please read more before you post slightly confused articles. Several things:

Multibyte codepages (MBCS) don’t have to be 8 bits per character at all. Check for example the Japanese Shift JS and the various encodings for Chinese. They also have several bytes for a character.

You seem to think that Unicode is equal to UTF-16. This is a common misconception unfortunately. Unicode in itself is only a big table that relates characters to numbers. UTF stands for Unicode Transformation Format and it means that it’s a means of encoding Unicode. There are several UTF encodings, like UTF-16 and UTF-8. Not all characters in UTF-16 are two bytes, some are four bytes (check up on surrogates at Unicode.org)

You’re on the right track, but please read more before you post slightly confused articles.

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