Re: Simple string conversion from UCS2 to ISO8859-1

On Sat, 22 Feb 2025 13:11:34 +0100, Janis Papanagnou wrote:

UTF-8 is an _encoding_ (as I wrote), as opposed to a direct
representation of a fixed width character (either 8 bit width ISO 8859-X
or 16 bit with UCS-2). Conversions to/from UTF-8 are not as
straightforward as fixed width character representations are.

Unicode is not, and never has been, a fixed-width character set.

UCS-2 was a fixed-width set of code points. Even that idea has been
abandoned.