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* manual/charset.texi: More misspelling fixes. Reported by Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com>.
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1999-01-15 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
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* manual/charset.texi: More misspelling fixes.
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Reported by Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com>.
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* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/vfork.c: Removed.
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* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/vfork.S: New file.
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@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ oriented character set.
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@cindex multibyte character
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@cindex EBCDIC
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For all the above reasons, an external encoding which is different
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from the internal encoding is often used if the later is UCS2 or UCS4.
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from the internal encoding is often used if the latter is UCS2 or UCS4.
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The external encoding is byte-based and can be chosen appropriately for
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the environment and for the texts to be handled. There exist a variety
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of different character sets which can be used for this external
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@item
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@cindex UTF-8
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Instead of converting the Unicode or @w{ISO 10646} text used internally
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it is often also sufficient to simply use an encoding different then
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it is often also sufficient to simply use an encoding different than
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UCS2/UCS4. The Unicode and @w{ISO 10646} standards even specify such an
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encoding: UTF-8. This encoding is able to represent all of @w{ISO
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10464} 31 bits in a byte string of length one to seven.
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the requirements the expected circle of users will have. I.e., if a
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project is expected to only be used in, say, Russia it is fine to use
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KOI8-R or a similar character set. But if at the same time people from,
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say, Greek are participating one should use a character set which allows
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say, Greece are participating one should use a character set which allows
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all people to collaborate.
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The most widely useful solution seems to be: go with the most general
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