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Cleoss

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Registered: 2018-01-19

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Wiki - function UTF8Encode: utf8 vs Unicode disambig

Hey, Den! Can you tell me a difference between Unicode and Unicode's subformat UTF-8 there (in functions for utf8-coding)?

As I see, general Unicode format in wiki is meant to be UTF-16, aint it? Otherwise it seems alike to me (utf8 and utf).

Cleoss

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Registered: 2018-01-19

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Re: Wiki - function UTF8Encode: utf8 vs Unicode disambig

In the same page a yet another disambiguation needs to be resolved:

If no BOM found then text is interpreted as ANSI encoding.

Which one encodings of ANSI? Obviously, Win-1252 for latin symbols? Or any other of them?
Same as when it's told 'Unicode', it stays unclear which version of UTF is used (utf7/ utf8/ utf8bom/ utf16le/ utf16be etc).

If no BOM found then text is interpreted as ANSI encoding.

However, it looks something scary for me that user can't use predicted encoding whilst using that function.
Sorry for my French, user is using a use.

Cleoss

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Re: Wiki - function UTF8Encode: utf8 vs Unicode disambig

Can you tell me a difference between Unicode and Unicode's subformat UTF-8 there

Telling that I mean that the Wiki page needs some clarification. Not that me's needing an explanation of the difference.

den4b

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Registered: 2006-04-06

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Re: Wiki - function UTF8Encode: utf8 vs Unicode disambig

A bit of clarification was added in the wiki articles:

https://www.den4b.com/wiki/Unicode
https://www.den4b.com/wiki/ReNamer:Pasc … :Functions
https://www.den4b.com/wiki/ReNamer:Pasc … ring_types

Feel free to suggest further clarifications if needed.

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