• To: "David Tolpin" <dvd@d...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: Re: Genx
• From: "Karl Waclawek" <karl@w...>
• Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 15:12:19 -0500
• References: <200401211941.i0LJfYvI015736@a...>

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Tolpin" <dvd@d...>
To: <xml-dev@l...>
> > How often is UTF-32 actually in use? I would have thought
> > that UTF-16 and UTF-8 are the dominant encodings?
> 
> Tim has a good article at ongoing. 
> 
> http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/04/26/UTF

Very well written.
 
> I think that choice of utf32 and utf8 is good; utf16 is a disaster,
> unless it is ucs2.

Technically yes, but by omitting UTf-16 you are excluding most of the world
(Java, C#/.NET, Windows). UCS-2 doesn't cover all Unicode code points, but it
could be that Windows/Java limits itself to UCS-2 rather than using
full UTF-16. I have never needed to use UTF-32, so who actually uses it?


Karl

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