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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Q: The dimension of UNICODE awareness
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () suse ! de>
Date:       1999-10-15 9:00:08
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On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Dawit Alemayehu wrote:

> > URL's are very bad in handling unicode stuff.. Basically URLs are 8-bit
> > based.
> 
> ahem I though US ASCII was 7-bit based system and that it was just encoded as an
> eight bit sequence.  The high order bit is insignificant ( always 0 ).

Yes. The point is it has support for 8 bits, not for 16 bits. So it is
easy to expand from US ASCII to UTF8 but including Unicode directly is
not possible.

Cheers,
Waldo

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