Re: FYI: Some links about UTF-16

[Jungshik Shin <jshin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, srintuar26 wrote:

> > Is it true that "Almost all modern software that supports Unicode,
> > especially software that supports it well, does so using 16-bit Unicode
> > internally: Windows and all Microsoft applications (Office etc.), Java,

> These decisions seem designed mostly to ease compatibility with
> Microsoft's OS.

  I agree. Or, for the lack of foresight...

> The Asian-language argument for UTF-16 seems
> mostly vacuous, and even if it were true it would be the lone

   Here again I agree. The worst case (text made entirely
of chars. between  U+0800 and U+FFFF) is 3:2.  With characters
below U+0800 (especially US-ASCII range) mixed up, the ratio is
even lower. For CJK Ext. B and C, UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32 are all
even.

  Jungshik

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