Re: UTF8 or Unicode

At 2005-02-14 21:14:54 -0500, pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us wrote:
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> Should our multi-byte encoding be referred to as UTF8 or Unicode?

The *encoding* should certainly be referred to as UTF-8. Unicode is a
character set, not an encoding; Unicode characters may be encoded with
UTF-8, among other things.

(One might think of a charset as being a set of integers representing
characters, and an encoding as specifying how those integers may be
converted to bytes.)

> I know UTF8 is a type of unicode but do we need to rename anything
> from Unicode to UTF8?

I don't know. I'll go through the documentation to see if I can find
anything that needs changing.

-- ams