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| Date | Wed, 12 Jun 2013 08:43:05 -0400 |
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On 06/12/2013 05:24 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Wed, 12 Jun 2013 09:09:05 +0000, Νικόλαος Κούρας wrote: > >> Isn't 14 bits way to many to store a character ? > > No. > > There are 1114111 possible characters in Unicode. (And in Japan, they > sometimes use TRON instead of Unicode, which has even more.) > > If you list out all the combinations of 14 bits: > > 0000 0000 0000 00 > 0000 0000 0000 01 > 0000 0000 0000 10 > 0000 0000 0000 11 > [...] > 1111 1111 1111 10 > 1111 1111 1111 11 > > you will see that there are only 32767 (2**15-1) such values. You can't > fit 1114111 characters with just 32767 values. > > Actually, it's worse. There are 16536 such values (2**14), assuming you include null, which you did in your list. -- DaveA
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