John,
JC> That's only true if you take the position that there are no
native/direct/raw
JC> encodings of Unicode.
Oh? You mean that Unicode does not fit directly -- ie, with no special
encoding rules -- into 32 bits, or 24 bits, or somesuch.
You mean that Unicode does not need special rules to stuff it into 8 bits, and
another set of rules to stuff it into 16 bits?
Because if the answer is that yes it does -- and the answer _is_ yes it does
-- then my point stands.
That's the difference between native representation, versus "encoding".
d/
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