Adam Beneschan wrote:
> Travis Crump wrote:
>
> > >> It seems silly to refer to an 8-bit international standard when
they are
> > >> in fact in UTF-8, from 2660-2667.
> > >
> > > Are those supposed to be the suit symbols in your sentence? I'm
reading
> > > your message on a Mac running the latest OS X and MT-Newswatcher,
and I
> > > don't see anything remotely like a suit symbol there.
> > >
> >
> > Sorry, my bad, I am an idiot, UTF-8 uses more than 8 bits. 8 bits
> > refers to ascii which is of course what you should use, and what I do
> > usually use.
>
> UTF-8 isn't a character set. It's a standard way of encoding a
> character set that may be a 16- or 32-bit character set, when 8-bit
> bytes are the unit used for transmitting the data. Yes, I was pretty
> much referring to ASCII, although ASCII is really just a 7-bit
[nige1]
The unicodes for suit symbols are
9827 9830 9829 9828 (CDHS)
Obviously, they need (at least) 2 bytes.
Unfortunately, monospace fonts supplied with old-
fa****oned OS's don't sup****t these international
standards. For example, I can't display them all in
Courier on my PC (Windows 95).
In a year or two, however, IMO, almost everyone
will adopt these standards.
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