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"/>