Re: What's system attribute "__CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING"?
Re: What's system attribute "__CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING"?
- Subject: Re: What's system attribute "__CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING"?
- From: John Delacour <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 17:48:13 +0100
At 12:11 pm -0400 30/8/02, Arthur J. Knapp wrote:
> Enter the Chinese, for whom even 13,000 characters is restricting,
and they, the Japanese and the Koreans (CJK) each have several
"two-byte" character sets, which allows them a maximum of about
13,600 different characters composed of two bytes.
I couldn't help but notice that the math doesn't quite work out.
If 13,000 characters is "restricting", why not go to 65,536.
Because the first byte has to be $A0 or above to allow us-ascii to be
used in the same document and to enable 7-bit encoding of the result.
In the old Simplified GB set and in shift-JIS both bytes are in the
hi set, so they have even fewer than big5 but are easier to encode,
eg JIS and HZ. There are also more esoteric Taiwanese sets.
Don't ask :-)
JD
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