Re^7: How to reverse a (Unicode) string

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Re^8: How to reverse a (Unicode) string by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jan 10, 2011 at 16:38 UTC
You have to always decode. No, you don't have to with US-ASCII and iso-8859-1. But that wasn't part of Juerds claim. I agree. He didn't mention any relation between the first 128 characters of iso-8859-1 and UTF-8. No idea why you bring this up. iso-8859-1 is an encoding (of a subset of Unicode) Unicode is a character set, not an encoding~~, so that sentence is broken~~. iso-8859-1 is both a character set and an encoding. The iso-8859-1 character set is a subset of the Unicode character character set, but this property does NOT explain why iso-8859-1 works without being decoded.	[reply]
Re^9: How to reverse a (Unicode) string by JavaFan (Canon) on Jan 10, 2011 at 16:48 UTC
No, you don't have to with US-ASCII and iso-8859-1. Sure you do. It's not a difficult encoding, but it still is an encoding. Unicode is a character set, not an encoding, so that sentence is broken. Wait. You are saying that a sentence of the form "X is an encoding of Y" is broken in English is Y isn't an encoding? I guess that "UTF-8 is an encoding of Unicode" is equally broken. For the reason that Unicode isn't an encoding in that sentence either.	[reply]
Re^10: How to reverse a (Unicode) string by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jan 11, 2011 at 00:07 UTC
Sure you do Why do you keep insisting there's a need to apply an identity function? Or are you saying decoding ASCII isn't an identity function? It's hard to tell since you're nay-saying without any explanation. You are saying that a sentence of the form "X is an encoding of Y" is broken in English [if] Y isn't an encoding? I seem to have misread what you said. (Perhaps I missed the "of"?) Striken.	[reply]