Re: How big is a Unicode character?

From: Darin Adler (darin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-09-26 11:04:40

on 9/26/01 12:04 AM, Jeremy Siek at jsiek_at_[hidden] wrote:
>> Right, it takes 21 bits to represent Unicode characters. wchar_t under
>> Windows is 16 bits. Under linux it is 32 bits.

on 9/26/01 8:39 AM, Daryle Walker at darylew_at_[hidden] wrote:
> Didn't it use to be 16 bits?  When did it change?

See <http://www.unicode.org/unicode/faq/utf_bom.html> for the answer to this
question. I'm not going to try to answer it here, because it's not a simple
topic.

    -- Darin