Re: Simple string conversion from UCS2 to ISO8859-1

On Mon, 24 Feb 2025 08:31:21 +0100, Janis Papanagnou wrote:

On 22.02.2025 22:23, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

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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.

 
I was speaking about the "UTF-8 _encoding_" of Unicode.

You *did* say that UCS-2 was “a direct representation of a fixed width
character”, did you not? It’s in your posting quoted above.