Peter T. Daniels scripsit:
> It seems clear to me that for Unicode's purposes this is also a useless
> dichotomy. They might find that the break between 8-bit and 16-bit
> characters is important, for instance.
There is no such division in Unicode. Characters can be represented:
in 32 bits, always;
or some in 16 bits, others in 32 bits;
or some in 8 bits, some in 16 bits, some in 24 bits, and some in 32 bits.
The concept "8-bit character" even less sense than "alphabetic document".
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