12/13/2012, 05:33 AM
(10/01/2007, 08:18 AM)GFR Wrote: ...
Number 65536 is also equal to 256 x 256, the cartesian product of two eight-bit codes, usable (and in fact presently used) by China for the binary coding of the Chinese ideographic alphabet.
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In Mainland China, Yes. They use GB18030 because it is always 2 bytes, whereas the same characters in Unicode UTF-8 may use 2, 3, 4, or 5 bytes.
However, there is also Unicode Plane 2 (http://www.unicode.org/roadmaps/sip/) which was required because they needed to encode rare characters used only in place names and family names, etc.
So the world is beautiful, but not the encoding of CJK (Chinese-Japanese-Korean) characters.
