DVD burning issue

[Markku Kolkka]

Kostas Sfakiotakis kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika tiistai, 
14. maaliskuuta 2006 01:35):
> If i recall correctly utf-8 is an effort of making a uniform
> way of representing English and Non-English as well .

Technically, UTF-8 is a method of encoding the Unicode character 
set into variable-length codes (1-4 bytes for each Unicode 
character). Unicode is intended to cover all writing systems 
used in the world.
 
> I don't 
> have the slightest idea whether it is a standard yet or not .

Yes, ISO/IEC 10646 ( http://tinyurl.com/n54vp ) and the Unicode 
Standard:   
http://www.unicode.org/standard/versions/enumeratedversions.html#Latest

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