On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 19:31, Alan Wolfe wrote: > just like the ascii character set has 256 characters, unicode has 65536 > characters so it has more than just english characters. every character is > 2 bytes instead of 1. Just a minor correction to that... Unicode has a lot more characters, 1114112 in 4.0.0, and only specifies the code points, which value represents which character. How many bytes a character takes depends on the encoding. Correction made, now move on, nothing to see here... -- Petri Latvala --------------------- To unsubscribe go to http://gameprogrammer.com/mailinglist.html