On 9/29/05 6:06 PM, Deborah Goldsmith didst favor us with:
> On Sep 29, 2005, at 12:31 PM, Mike Kluev wrote:
>> Thanks, I didn't know that. I admit, I read my copy of Unicode
>> Demystified only briefly and statements like "Unicode was originally
>> designed for a 16-bit encoding space, ... Thus the original Unicode
>> encoding space had room for 65,536 characters, ..." ("characters"!)
>> was the source of my confusion.
>
> "Character" has multiple meanings in Unicode. From the Unicode
> glossary (http://www.unicode.org/glossary/index.html):
>
>> Character. (1) The smallest component of written language that has
>> semantic value; refers to the abstract meaning and/or shape, rather
>> than a specific shape (see also glyph), though in code tables some
>> form of visual representation is essential for the reader¹s
>> understanding. (2) Synonym for abstract character. (3) The basic
>> unit of encoding for the Unicode character encoding. (4) The
>> English name for the ideographic written elements of Chinese
>> origin. (See ideograph (2).)
> Meaning (3) is a synonym for "code point"; meaning (1) is a synonym
> for "end user character".
This is one of the reasons I read Unicode Demystified. I wasn't even sure
what a character was. ;-)
Larry
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