data/dictionary.xml
changeset 85 02c5533d3888
parent 84 835af238d020
child 86 6a2aee55a16c
     1.1 --- a/data/dictionary.xml	Fri Aug 16 18:31:05 2013 +0200
     1.2 +++ b/data/dictionary.xml	Fri Aug 16 18:41:01 2013 +0200
     1.3 @@ -377,7 +377,16 @@
     1.4  	<concept>
     1.5  		<term abbreviation="UTF-8" completeForm="unicode transformation format 8-bit" language="en"/>
     1.6  		<term abbreviation="UTF8" completeForm="unicode transformation format 8-bit" language="en"/>
     1.7 -		<explanation language="en"><text></text></explanation>
     1.8 +		<explanation language="en">
     1.9 +			<text>
    1.10 +				an character encoding that can represent every character in the Unicode character set;
    1.11 +				is multibyte and variable-width encoding which means that one character can be represented by one or more bytes
    1.12 +				(i.e. character length of the text does not have to be equal to byte lenght of the data),
    1.13 +				in case of UTF-8 it is from 1 byte up to 6 bytes per character;
    1.14 +				is backward compatible with ASCII – one-byte characters in UTF-8 are encoded in same way as in ACSII;
    1.15 +				nowadays is widely used: on web, in e-mail, in operating systems (file names), in XML files etc.
    1.16 +			</text>
    1.17 +		</explanation>
    1.18  	</concept>
    1.19  	<concept>
    1.20  		<term abbreviation="UCS-2" completeForm="universal character set 2-byte" language="en"/>