>The two required encodings are UTF-16 and UTF-8. You can use any other
>encoding you like, so long as the system you are working with supports
>it.
>
>Remember: byte != character code != character != glyph
It may be slightly off topic, but do you mind expanding on that last
line? I would be interested.
IANA character encoding spec I found at
ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/character-sets do not
explicitly name UTF-16, but does name several flavors of Unicode(?):
ISO-10646-UCS-2
ISO-10646-UCS-4
ISO-10646-UTF-1
ISO-10646-Unicode-Latin1
ISO-10646-J-1
UNICODE-1-1
UNICODE-1-1-UTF-7
UTF-7
UTF-8
Which is an alias for UTF-16?
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