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Re: FreeBSD i18n fonts for wscons



On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 11:43:58PM +0900, Takahiro Kambe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In message <20100203140737.GA15461%boris.ghen.be@localhost>
>       on Wed, 3 Feb 2010 15:07:37 +0100,
>       Geert Hendrickx <ghen%telenet.be@localhost> wrote:
> > Blah, it is a variable-width encoding taking anything from 1 to 4 bytes per
> > character.
> I recently learned that UTF-8 takes from 1 to 8 bytes per 1 character
> with IVS (Ideographic Variation Sequence).



IIRC, the encoding itself can principally take 1-6 bytes,
but with the current version of Unicode it's limited to 4.


        Geert


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