[svn:parrot] r39446 - trunk/docs/pdds
bacek at svn.parrot.org
bacek at svn.parrot.org
Mon Jun 8 00:47:59 UTC 2009
Author: bacek
Date: Mon Jun 8 00:47:58 2009
New Revision: 39446
URL: https://trac.parrot.org/parrot/changeset/39446
Log:
[docs] Fix typo - UTF-16 isn't fixed-width encoding. Use UCS-2 instead.
Modified:
trunk/docs/pdds/pdd28_strings.pod
Modified: trunk/docs/pdds/pdd28_strings.pod
==============================================================================
--- trunk/docs/pdds/pdd28_strings.pod Mon Jun 8 00:37:04 2009 (r39445)
+++ trunk/docs/pdds/pdd28_strings.pod Mon Jun 8 00:47:58 2009 (r39446)
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
An encoding determines how a codepoint is represented inside a computer.
Simple encodings like ASCII define that the codepoints 0-127 simply
live as their numeric equivalents inside an eight-bit bytes. Other
-fixed-width encodings like UTF-16 use more bytes to encode more
+fixed-width encodings like UCS-2 use more bytes to encode more
codepoints. Variable-width encodings like UTF-8 use one byte for
codepoints 0-127, two bytes for codepoints 127-2047, and so on.
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