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Possible Duplicate: Why UTF-32 exists whereas only 21 bits are necessary to encode every character? The maximum Unicode code point is 0x10FFFF in UTF-32. UTF-32 has 21 information bits and 11 superfluous blank bits. So why is there no UTF-24 encoding (i.e. UTF-32 with the high byte removed) for storing each code point in 3 bytes rather than 4? Skippy Fastol Well, the truth is : UTF-24 was suggested in 2007 : http://unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2007-m01/0057.html The mentioned pros & cons being : "UTF-24 Advantages: 1. Fixed length code units. 2. Encoding format is easily detectable for

Maybe i dont need 32bit strings but i need to represent 32bit characters http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1f4a9/index.htm Now i grabbed the symbola font and can see the character when i paste it (in the url or any text areas) so i know i have the font support for it. But how do i support it in my C#/.NET app? -edit- i'll add something. When i pasted the said character in my .NET winform app i DO NOT see the character correctly. When pasting it into firefox i do see it correctly. How do i see the characters correctly in my winform apps? Mac I am not sure I understand your question:

i'm trying to print out a string of UTF-16 characters. i posted this question a while back and the advice given was to convert to UTF-32 using iconv and print it as a string of wchar_t. i've done some research, and managed to code the following: // *c is the pointer to the characters (UTF-16) i'm trying to print // sz is the size in bytes of the input i'm trying to print iconv_t icv; char in_buf[sz]; char* in; size_t in_sz; char out_buf[sz * 2]; char* out; size_t out_sz; icv = iconv_open("UTF-32", "UTF-16"); memcpy(in_buf, c, sz); in = in_buf; in_sz = sz; out = out_buf; out_sz = sz * 2; size_t

Google App Engine uses Python 2.5.2, apparently with UCS4 enabled. But the GAE datastore uses UTF-8 internally. So if you store u'\ud834\udd0c' (length 2) to the datastore, when you retrieve it, you get '\U0001d10c' (length 1). I'm trying to count of the number of unicode characters in the string in a way that gives the same result before and after storing it. So I'm trying to normalize the string (from u'\ud834\udd0c' to '\U0001d10c') as soon as I receive it, before calculating its length and putting it in the datastore. I know I can just encode it to UTF-8 and then decode again, but is there

utf16 or utf32? I'm trying to store content in a lot of languages. Some of the languages use double-wide fonts (for example, Japanese fonts are frequently twice as wide as English fonts). I'm not sure which kind of database I should be using. Any information about the differences between these four charsets... Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams MySQL's utf32 and utf8mb4 (as well as standard UTF-8) can directly store any character specified by Unicode; the former is fixed size at 4 bytes per character whereas the latter is between 1 and 4 bytes per character. utf8mb3 and the original utf8 can only store

I'd like to write unicode literal U+10428 in Java. http://www.marathon-studios.com/unicode/U10428/Deseret_Small_Letter_Long_I I tried with '\u10428' and it doesn't compile. Because Java went full-out unicode when people thought 64K are enough for everyone (Where did one hear such before?), they started out with UCS-2 and later upgraded to UTF-16. But they never bothered to add an escape sequence for unicode characters outside the BMP. Thus, your only recourse is manually recoding to a UTF-16 surrogate-pair and using two UTF-16 escapes. Your example codepoint U+10428 is "\uD801\uDC28" . I used