Although I think your elaboration is flawed.

It's definitely not accurate. At the same time, anyone can understand my model, and they should be able to use it to successfully distinguish between unicodes and encodings like utf-8--and convert between them. Or they can read a tutorial an unicode and be completely confused, and not be able to write any code at all.

Decoding is definitely not the process of going from 2660 to black spades suit as you claim.

Encoding = convert unicode integer to utf-8 character for output

Decoding = convert utf-8 character to unicode integer for input

That simple model will allow any unicode beginner to write a lot of code before having to adjust their mental model. For what it's worth, I've never read a single unicode tutorial that will actually allow you to write code.

In reply to Re^3: Search & replace of UTF-8 characters ? by 7stud
in thread Search & replace of UTF-8 characters ? by levien

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