[vorbis-dev] UTF-8 & Hebrew

[Ross Levis]

If don't quite understand.

I understood that UTF-8 utilizes as many 8-bit characters as it needs to 
store the required entended character.  I think that can be up to 4 
bytes (32 bits).  The old 16-bit unicode standard is apparently on it's 
way out.

Currently if I (or you) enter an Arial #216 character (O slash,Ø) into a 
comment, it is saved as 2 bytes (C398) and displayed correctly as one 
character in my app & the Winamp comment editor, so I don't understand 
why this works but the Hebrew characters do not.  Is it that UTF-8 is 
not fully supported in Windows.

Ross.

Peter Harris wrote:

>Yes, vorbiscomment is quite likely to blame. Vorbiscomment as of RC3 only
>supports characters that fit into the current code page. 16-bit UNICODE
>support is planned. The only reason it isn't done yet is that it is a real
>pain to support properly on Windows 95/98/Me.
>

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