2000.01.19 21:27 "RE: Unicode build of libtiff?", by Leonard Rosenthol

I've wondered about this issue as well.

My understanding is that since the TIFF spec doesn't say anything about 2 byte wide characters, all text tags would have to be narrow for other software to read them.

It seems that any new image spec which includes text descriptions must support Unicode.

So why not simply encode the UCS-2/UTF-16 data (aka "real" Unicode data) into UTF-8, for placement into TIFF?

Leonard

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