UTF-9

From Just Solve the File Format Problem
(Difference between revisions)
Jump to: navigation, search
m (Grammatical fix)
(Added link to a conversion program)
Line 6: Line 6:
  
 
'''UTF-9''' is a [[Unicode]] [[Character Encodings|character encoding]] introduced by the standards document RFC 4042 in 2005. UTF-9 and its sibling [[UTF-18]] allow for efficient coding of Unicode characters on machines based on 36-bit words, using 9 and 18 bits per code point, respectively. Although the encoding are completely valid in a technical sense, they are largely humorous, as virtually all computers designed after the early-mid 1980s use word sizes of powers of two, making these encodings largely obsolete.
 
'''UTF-9''' is a [[Unicode]] [[Character Encodings|character encoding]] introduced by the standards document RFC 4042 in 2005. UTF-9 and its sibling [[UTF-18]] allow for efficient coding of Unicode characters on machines based on 36-bit words, using 9 and 18 bits per code point, respectively. Although the encoding are completely valid in a technical sense, they are largely humorous, as virtually all computers designed after the early-mid 1980s use word sizes of powers of two, making these encodings largely obsolete.
 +
 +
== Software ==
 +
* [https://github.com/enricobacis/utf9]: A converter written in [[Python]] (Pip package utf9)
  
 
== Links ==
 
== Links ==

Revision as of 18:04, 22 April 2019

File Format
Name UTF-9
Ontology
Released 2005

UTF-9 is a Unicode character encoding introduced by the standards document RFC 4042 in 2005. UTF-9 and its sibling UTF-18 allow for efficient coding of Unicode characters on machines based on 36-bit words, using 9 and 18 bits per code point, respectively. Although the encoding are completely valid in a technical sense, they are largely humorous, as virtually all computers designed after the early-mid 1980s use word sizes of powers of two, making these encodings largely obsolete.

Software

  • [1]: A converter written in Python (Pip package utf9)

Links

Personal tools
Namespaces

Variants
Actions
Navigation
Toolbox