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Unicode is a superset of ISO-8859-1 such that the first 256 Unicode characters correspond to ISO-8859-1.
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Is this a true or false statement?
Unicode is a superset of ISO-8859-1 such that the first 256 Unicode characters correspond to ISO-8859-1.
True. The encoding uses only eight bits for each character, so there are only 256 possible characters.
Not exactly correct, but essentially true.
The ISO-8859-1 character set is the same as the first 256 characters in the Unicode character set. The UTF-8 encoding is used to encode Unicode characters. As UTF-8 is a multi-byte encoding, it uses some codes in the 0-255 range as the start of multi-byte codes. This means that you can’t safely decode ISO-8859-1 as UTF-8 or vice versa.
Ref: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-1