Re: CHAT: The EU expands (was Re: THEORY/CHAT: Talmy, Jackendoff and Matchboxes)
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, May 3, 2004, 0:51 |
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Me> Except that modern Windows versions use Unicode at the core
Henrik> Ahem. You mean UCS-2 (the BMP), right?
Nope.
Henrik> As far as I know the C type wchar_t is still only 16 bits wide
Henrik> under Windos.
The Unicode version of the system APIs uses a 16-bit type, yes, but
UTF-16 surrogates are legal. And, at least in Western-language
localized versions of Windows, disk storage uses UTF-8 by default, which
can of course encode the entire range.
-Mark