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  3. March 2004

Re: Calling iconv() with the correct prototype definitions

> You mean to tell me the are practical
> uses for a Codepage or CCSID that
> encompasses > 64K characters??

Asian languages do not use letters to form words; they use pictographs that
mean ideas.  As a result, it can take many thousands of unique pictographs
to write a letter to Mum.  Unicode and associated character encodings
attempt to embrace all other prior encodings as well as create new ones.
This is an interesting link on Unicode:
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/utfencodingforms/
  --buck

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