[Zope3-dev] i18n, unicode, and the underline

[Martijn Faassen]

Shane Hathaway wrote:
> sathya wrote:
> >Just want to throw out this question:
> >unicode strings may use 16 or 32 bit UTF encoding
> >regular strings use 7 bit ascii
> >what is this 8 bit ascii that is being talked about ?
> 
> I don't think anyone meant to refer to 8-bit ASCII (which was one 
> attempt to add some international characters to the standard character 
> set, AFAIK.)  When I refer to 8 bits, I'm usually talking about the 
> storage of 7 bits in 8-bit bytes.

Then perhaps this explains some of the confusion we've been having. When
I talk about 8 bits, I usually mean the storage of text in some 8 bit
encoding.

Regards,

Martijn