我对编码有点困惑。据我所知,旧的ASCII字符每个字符占用一个字节。一个Unicode字符需要多少字节?
我假设一个Unicode字符可以包含任何语言的所有可能字符——我说的对吗?那么每个字符需要多少字节呢?
UTF-7、UTF-6、UTF-16等是什么意思?它们是Unicode的不同版本吗?
我读了维基百科上关于统一码的文章,但对我来说太难了。我期待看到一个简单的答案。
我对编码有点困惑。据我所知,旧的ASCII字符每个字符占用一个字节。一个Unicode字符需要多少字节?
我假设一个Unicode字符可以包含任何语言的所有可能字符——我说的对吗?那么每个字符需要多少字节呢?
UTF-7、UTF-6、UTF-16等是什么意思?它们是Unicode的不同版本吗?
我读了维基百科上关于统一码的文章,但对我来说太难了。我期待看到一个简单的答案。
当前回答
看看这个Unicode代码转换器。例如,在“0x…”字段,然后单击Convert。十六进制数E2 80 89(3字节)出现在“UTF-8 code units”字段中。
其他回答
在Unicode中,答案是不容易给出的。正如您已经指出的,问题在于编码。
对于任何没有变音符字符的英语句子,UTF-8的答案将是字符的字节数,而UTF-16的答案将是字符数乘以2。
(到目前为止)我们可以声明大小的唯一编码是UTF-32。每个字符总是32位,即使我想象代码点是为未来的UTF-64准备的:)
至少有两件事让它如此困难:
composed characters, where instead of using the character entity that is already accented/diacritic (À), a user decided to combine the accent and the base character (`A). code points. Code points are the method by which the UTF-encodings allow to encode more than the number of bits that gives them their name would usually allow. E.g. UTF-8 designates certain bytes which on their own are invalid, but when followed by a valid continuation byte will allow to describe a character beyond the 8-bit range of 0..255. See the Examples and Overlong Encodings below in the Wikipedia article on UTF-8. The excellent example given there is that the € character (code point U+20AC can be represented either as three-byte sequence E2 82 AC or four-byte sequence F0 82 82 AC. Both are valid, and this shows how complicated the answer is when talking about "Unicode" and not about a specific encoding of Unicode, such as UTF-8 or UTF-16. Strictly speaking, as pointed out in a comment, this doesn't seem to be the case any longer or was even based on a misunderstanding on my part. The quote from the updated Wikipedia article reads: Longer encodings are called overlong and are not valid UTF-8 representations of the code point.
看看这个Unicode代码转换器。例如,在“0x…”字段,然后单击Convert。十六进制数E2 80 89(3字节)出现在“UTF-8 code units”字段中。
奇怪的是,没有人指出如何计算一个Unicode字符占用多少字节。下面是UTF-8编码字符串的规则:
Binary Hex Comments
0xxxxxxx 0x00..0x7F Only byte of a 1-byte character encoding
10xxxxxx 0x80..0xBF Continuation byte: one of 1-3 bytes following the first
110xxxxx 0xC0..0xDF First byte of a 2-byte character encoding
1110xxxx 0xE0..0xEF First byte of a 3-byte character encoding
11110xxx 0xF0..0xF7 First byte of a 4-byte character encoding
所以简单的答案是:它需要1到4个字节,这取决于第一个将表明它将占用多少字节。
对于UTF-16,如果字符以0xD800或更大开头,则需要四个字节(两个代码单元);这样的字符称为“代理对”。更具体地说,代理对的形式是:
[0xD800 - 0xDBFF] [0xDC00 - 0xDFF]
在[…]表示给定范围的双字节代码单元。任何<= 0xD7FF的值都是一个代码单元(两个字节)。任何>= 0xE000都是无效的(BOM标记除外)。
参见http://unicodebook.readthedocs.io/unicode_encodings.html,第7.5节。
从维基:
UTF-8, 8位可变宽度编码,最大限度地兼容ASCII; UTF-16,一种16位变宽编码; UTF-32, 32位,固定宽度编码。
这是三种最流行的不同编码。
在UTF-8中,每个字符被编码成1到4个字节(主要编码) 在UTF16中,每个字符被编码成1到2个16位的单词和 在UTF-32中,每个字符都被编码为一个32位的单词。