Archive for February 8th, 2007
The Unicode Storage Issues
The character which were earlier represented by a 8 bit number, with introduction of unicode are represented by 16 bits (2 bytes). This led to byte ordering issue. That is, character ‘A’ represented by decimal 65 (hex 41) needs to be specified as U+0041. Now what would be the storage or communication pattern, will 00 come before 41 or vice versa (termed little-endian and big-endian respectively).
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