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From: Jeremy Siek (jsiek_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-09-26 11:12:48


On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Daryle Walker wrote:
daryle> >
daryle> > Right, it takes 21 bits to represent Unicode characters. wchar_t under
daryle> > Windows is 16 bits. Under linux it is 32 bits.
daryle>
daryle> Didn't it use to be 16 bits? When did it change?

Unicode 2.0 (published 1996)

http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/userguide/unicodeBasics.html

Cheers,
Jeremy

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