Re: New VSI post on Youtube

On 8/20/2024 5:12 PM, Craig A. Berry wrote:

On 8/20/24 1:45 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

On 8/20/2024 2:37 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

The second transfer between an in memory sequence of
sequence of chars aka Unicode code points (0..65536 values)
usually in the form of String objects

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Correction.
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That was how it was when it was designed.
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Today it is:
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... UTF-16 code units (0..65536 values) ...

 That was UCS-2, which was fixed width.  UTF-16 can encode all the code
points in Unicode because it is varying width.

The distinction I was trying to make is between
(Unicode) code points and (UTF-16) code units.
A code point can be encoded in a variable number of code units.
Arne