Re: multibyte encodings other than UTF-8

[PILCH Hartmut <phm@a2e.de>]

On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Thomas Chan wrote:

> > ... tell me if
> > there are multibyte encodings in use, other than UTF-8, in which the
> > number of octets used to represent a character is not equal to the
> > number of character cells used to display it on a terminal?
... 
> - Taiwan's CNS 11643 in EUC-TW encoding (2-3 bytes per full-width CJK
>   character); see http://www.cns11643.gov.tw/
> - Taiwan's CCCII (3 bytes per full-width CJK character)
> - USA's EACC, used in libraries (3? bytes per CJK character)

- ISO-2022-JP-2, ISO-2022-7bit, ...
- emacs-mule
- UTF-16, UTF-7, UCS-2, UCS-4

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