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Re: Arabic input via WebObjects?
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Re: Arabic input via WebObjects?


  • Subject: Re: Arabic input via WebObjects?
  • From: Arturo Perez <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 11:31:45 -0400

email@hidden wrote:

Hi,
UTF-8 is 8 bit code.
Unicode ist 16 and it includes all the chars we know today over all the
world.
If you want to write arabic , ascii, german, French and etc... in your db.
Use unicode. the UTF-8 do not include all these chars in one


That information is incorrect. UTF8 supports characters requiring up to 6bytes of "value". My application currently and concurrently supports Greek, French, English, Spanish, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Polish, Czech, German, and Hungarian using UTF-8. None of those are RTL, though, which is what I was really curious about.


Technically speaking, Unicode is a mapping of every known character (vague term but humor me) to an integer. UTF-8, UTF-32, UTF-16 maps those integers into 8bit, 32bit, and 16bit encodings. Typically, when people say "Use Unicode" they mean the original UTF16 encoding. That encoding does not fully support East Asian languages, amongst other problems.

See:

http://www.unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html#UTF8
http://www.apache.org/~drtr/charsets.html
http://www.w3.org/International/O-charset-lang.html
ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/WINDOWS/CP1252.TXT
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/search.htm
http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-setting-encoding-in-applications
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/charset.html
http://www.w3.org/International/tutorials/tutorial-lang/

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