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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Simple string conversion from UCS2 to ISO8859-1
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2025 21:23:42 -0000 (UTC)
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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.

UCS-2 was a fixed-width set of code points. Even that idea has been 
abandoned.