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[Adam Twardoch]

Apostolos Syropoulos wrote:
>  This obviously is false! They simply forget Omega and for that matter Aleph. The
> Omega system has as its default input character set the UCS-2 characters set and
> one can easily adjust Omega to make it able to process UTF-8  encoded files. 
UCS-2 is an obsolete transformation format as it only gives access to 
6.25% of Unicode's encoding space. The only really useful Unicode 
transformation formats are UTF-32 aka UCS-4, UTF-16 (LE and BE) and UTF-8.

Can Omega or Aleph seamlessly process characters outside of the BMP?

A.

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Adam Twardoch
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