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Re: Encoding of etc/HELLO
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Encoding of etc/HELLO |
Date: |
Mon, 23 Apr 2018 18:07:09 +0300 |
> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2018 22:53:58 -0400
>
> > UTF-8 cannot encode language-specific differences of a given
> > character, that is something that is against the basic principle of
> > Unicode: that each character has one and only one encoding.
>
> But along the way they discovered that it's sometimes difficult to
> decide whether two "things" should be consider as one and the same
> character or not. They ended up with a set of "rules" to make those
> decisions, but it's not nearly as simple as "each character has one and
> only one encoding".
Not sure what you allude to here. Are you talking about the variation
selectors?
- Re: Encoding of etc/HELLO, (continued)
- Re: Encoding of etc/HELLO, Michael Albinus, 2018/04/20
- Re: Encoding of etc/HELLO, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/04/21
- Re: Encoding of etc/HELLO, Clément Pit-Claudel, 2018/04/21
- Re: Encoding of etc/HELLO, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/04/21
- Re: Encoding of etc/HELLO, Paul Eggert, 2018/04/21
- Re: Encoding of etc/HELLO, Stefan Monnier, 2018/04/22
- Re: Encoding of etc/HELLO,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Encoding of etc/HELLO, Stefan Monnier, 2018/04/23
- Re: Encoding of etc/HELLO, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/04/23
Re: Encoding of etc/HELLO, Paul Eggert, 2018/04/20