Re: Microsoft Layer for Unicode on Windows 95/98/Me systems

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"Thorsten Albers" <albersRE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> mayayana <mayaXXyana1a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb im Beitrag
> <i_ufe.9554$7F4.9418@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>...
> > Codepoint? I gather you're going to make
> > me look that up to figure out what you're
> > talking about.
>
> Sorry, it is "code point", not "codepoint"...
>
> For the term please refer to
> http://www.unicode.org/glossary/index.html#code_point
>
> This term is used to differentiate the Unicode character encodings from
> standard single byte character encodings. Unicode code points are used not
> only to encode characters but also to encode administrative data, control
> codes, etc. And some characters are encoded by 2 code points
("surrogates";
> 4 byte instead of 2). So the term "code point" seems to be a bit more
> comprehensive than the term "character code".

"Code point" has been around for years, at least 2-25 years.


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