Re: Questions on the limitation of Double Byte character Set in HTML

Jean-Marc Desperrier <[email protected]> Mon, 28 Feb 2005 12:04:26 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.internationalization
Organization Another Netscape Collabra Server User
Message-ID <[email protected]>
oLiVieR CheNeSoN wrote:
> I want to have the copyright symbol © in my japanese page. I want be able to
> have the ANSI corresponding symbol as it is used to create a double byte
> character. I will have to use the HTML code.
> 
> Can I say to this is a limitation of DBCS over Unicode ?

Yes, it is, the character sets you list can not represent as many 
characters as unicode.

In fact, even if you consider only chinese characters, the unicode 
standard includes more than any of the standards you listed.