Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> Greg Stark wrote:
> > Using iso-8859-1 to encode "é" as a single byte versus using UTF8
> > which would take two bytes to encode it is an issue of using two
> > *different* encodings.
>
> But that's not what we are discussing.
The poster to which Tom was responding was bringing it up as an issue.
I was explaining how it was different.
> > There is a separate issue that some characters could theoretically
> > have multiple representations even within the same encoding.
>
> That is what we are discussing.
Well the original discussion about the hungarian strings was about yet a third
case entirely. Two different sequences of characters that have the same
semantic significance.
--
greg