Re: [libreoffice-users] about unicode characters:

nasrin khaksar wrote:
> hi every one.
> thanks so much for spending time and helping me to use libreoffice properly.
> is there a solution for libreoffice to recognize the unicode incoding
> and open them properly like utf-8 documents?
> because open office has unicode utf-7 and utf-8 and libreoffice has
> utf-7, utf-8 and utf-16.
> whats the difference between unicode and unicode utf-8?
> thanks and god bless you all.

Unicode is a standard for representing text in a form which can be used 
by computers (i.e. a series of numbers). It basically assigns a number 
to each of thousands of characters used in different languages. It also 
defines several encodings which can be used to represent those numbers 
in memory or on disk; UTF-8 and UTF-16 are probably the most common. 
When dealing with plain text files, you need to know which encoding is 
used, not just that it's "Unicode", in order to read it correctly.

There's a lot more detail, e.g. here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode

Mark.


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