On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 03:39:45AM -0700,
Fritz Bayer <fritz-bayer(at)web(dot)de> wrote
a message of 53 lines which said:
> I mean unicode itself is 16 bit long.
This is completely false. Unicode itself is just a table and, since it
contains more than 100,000 characters, you cannot index them with 16
bits.
Unicode has various encodings, some fixed-size, like UTF-32, some not.
> So "münchen" should expand to 14 characters. But only ü expands to
> two characters.
Perfectly normal with UTF-8, where the size of an Unicode charactere
is not fixed.