Path: utzoo!mnetor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!math.lsa.umich.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sunybcs!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!rochester!kodak!uupsi!sunic!lth.se!newsuser From: Dan@dna.lth.se (Dan Oscarsson) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Time for 8 bit news, isn't it?????. Message-ID: <1990Jul25.134457.19712@lth.se> Date: 25 Jul 90 13:44:57 GMT References: <1990Jul21.054016.10409@looking.on.ca> <1990Jul21.231352.6234@zoo.toronto.edu> <1990Jul22.062034.20896@looking.on.ca> Sender: newsuser@lth.se (LTH network news server) Distribution: news Organization: Computer Science, Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden Lines: 18 In article zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) writes: > >Re character sets, ISO10646 sounds good but I'd hate to see news volume >double (16 bit chars vs 8). Options for it and ISO8859/x sound more >efficient. > NO ISO 10646 will not double the volume even though ISO 10646 is a 32-bit character set. It will only be necessary to use 8 bits when ascii or ISO 8859-1 is used. A few additional bytes are used when changing to an other part of ISO 10646 than base part. Dan -- Dan Oscarsson Department of Computer Science Lund Institute of Technology e-mail: Dan@dna.lth.se Box 118 S-221 00 Lund, Sweden