Subject: Re: bug#23595: 25.1.50; file with chinese/japanse chars, vc-diff fails (HG, Git, RCS)

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 23:01:31 +0200

Uwe Brauer <[email-masked]> writes:

>    > Why?  UTF-8 supports Chinese just fine.
>
> Now I am confused. In my poor understanding I thought UTF-16 is needed
> for Chinese and Japanese. That seems not to be the case?!

No, UTF-8 and UTF-16 are just two different encodings of the same
charset, which is Unicode.  

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