Re: unicode: UTF / UCS

On 27.07.21 20:42, Gabriele F wrote:
> relevant portions of the Unicode specification (unicode.org) are not
> very long or exceedingly hard to understand, but maybe you can find some
> more accessible description.

I will - i just prefer to believe in the working passion of
the crowd (not cloud:) ). Means, when my linux
is already configured with unicode it should
not use ascii anymore, and without the order that i have
to stick deep into the science of charsets.

Now, i am awakened with the interest of knowing more
about unicode charsets, especially with linux. I keep
myself busy with it hereafter.

> Most of all, UTF-8 is (normally) absolutely indistinguishable from
> normal US-ASCII until you use characters that were not in US-ASCII; so
> for example most English files will be bit-per-bit identical whether
> written in US-ASCII or UTF-8.

I spent some time with unicode pages. Therefore i thought to
remember that ascii characters encoded in unicode using
an different endian. But maybe i am wrong with this in
mind.
> https://www.mail-archive.com/vim_use@googlegroups.com/msg57383.html and
> the others of that thread. But you probably won't make much out of it
> until you know how at least UTF-8 is encoded.
> https://www.mail-archive.com/vim_use@googlegroups.com/msg57385.html .

thx, i appreciate *entropy*

> By the way, all of this means that it's not ascii that is "deprecated",
> but the various complimentary or alternative encodings that were (and
> still partly are) used to support non-English characters.

Inside of my amateur and dilettante mind i think it like
"right now our cpu's enforces themself with 64bit, why should
i notice an 7bit process as not deprecated"

*i like to write with green and comical slang because of
the entertainment value - hopefully its ok with our netiquette!*

sincerely
-kefko

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