[Lvlug] UTF Embedding of Eight-Bit Chars

[Ricardo SIGNES]

* Chris Hever <fingolfin at thelinuxlink.net> [2004-06-23T19:49:34]
> This continues to confuse me. How is it that eight-bit characters can be
> embedded in Unicode?? For example, the attachment. There are fifteen
> letters represented in it; most are one byte, but a few are not. You can
> verify this by using wc -c.

They can't... but seven-bit characters can.  Seven bit characters are
seven-bit characters.  Higher level characters are multibyte.

That's what UTF-8 is.  I'd explain in more detail, but... well, I'm
watching TV.

-- 
rjbs
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