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From: Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Simple string conversion from UCS2 to ISO8859-1
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2025 08:31:21 +0100
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On 22.02.2025 22:23, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Feb 2025 13:11:34 +0100, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
> 
>> UTF-8 is an _encoding_ (as I wrote), as opposed to a direct
>> representation of a fixed width character (either 8 bit width ISO 8859-X
>> or 16 bit with UCS-2). Conversions to/from UTF-8 are not as
>> straightforward as fixed width character representations are.
> 
> Unicode is not, and never has been, a fixed-width character set.

I was speaking about the "UTF-8 _encoding_" of Unicode.

(Not sure what you consider the term "Unicode" implies.)

Janis