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Re: UCS-2BE


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: UCS-2BE
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 13:56:52 +0200
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Kenichi Handa <address@hidden> writes:

> In article <address@hidden>, Jason Rumney <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Kenichi Handa wrote:
>> > But, I don't know the definition of UCS-2BE.  Is it just a
>> > limited UTF-16BE (limited to BMP)?  Where is it defined
>> > officially?
>> >
>> >   
>> It's not really authoritative, but there is some information here:
>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-16#UCS-2
>
> Thank you, but it says nothing about "UCS-2BE".

"UTF-16 is often mislabeled UCS-2."

Otherwise UCS-2 is just UTF-16 without surrogates.

See <http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.0.0/appC.pdf>.

Andreas.

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