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From: | Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: | bug#23595: 25.1.50; file with chinese/japanse chars, vc-diff fails (HG, Git, RCS) |
Date: | Tue, 24 May 2016 05:33:05 +0300 |
> From: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> > Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 20:37:29 +0000 > > >>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes: > >> Right, I see, that was just 2 chars in a document which contained > >> latin-1 or UTF8. So Chinese and Japanese programmers are in a > >> disadvantage, no? > > > Why? UTF-8 supports Chinese just fine. > > Now I am confused. In my poor understanding I thought UTF-16 is needed > for Chinese and Japanese. That seems not to be the case?! No, it's not the case. UTF-8 and UTF-16 both support the same space of Unicode codepoints. > So the problem I reported was caused by the fact that I used UTF-16 > instead of UTF-8? Yes!
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