Wednesday, 30 May 2007

Multi Byte blessing!

Whilst investigating a Thai Glyph
Issue, I came across an interesting observation. Thai character cluster consists of up to four parallel lines which is

-Base line ( pertains to consonants etc..)
-Upper line ( Diacritic )
-Lower line ( Diacritic /upper vowel)
-Line above the upper line (Upper Diacritic)

If you look at a good Thai language engine, a character cluster can contain up to three input characters given in the picture below



So think again when you ask someone in the interview : how many bytes does a char occupy : he might answer - multi byte( Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean)!! Recruit him. He knows what he's talking about.

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