[odf-discuss] Re: ODF and UTF-8/16/32-HEX/DEC/DECHTML

[Thomas Zander]

On Wednesday 21 February 2007 19:07, J David Eisenberg wrote:
> Daniel: I've been following this conversation (though not very deeply),
> and I think what he means is that everything should be done in numeric
> codes:  < or < for the less than symbol, > or > for the
> greater than symbol, and *never* use any alphabetic entity abbreviations.

Most probably, yes.
Utf-8 and utf-16 have one big difference.  Utf-16 does not allow more than 16 
bits for storing a character, while utf8 does.  So if you are used to utf-16 
you will likely conclude that you can store only ascii in utf-8. Which is 
false, since it can actually store more than utf-16 :)
So, if you can only store 8 bits per char, then indeed you need to store all 
values as ༀ
Which luckely we really don't have to care about.
-- 
Thomas Zander
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