From: Tomas Frydrych (tomas@frydrych.uklinux.net)
Date: Sat Apr 20 2002 - 15:33:36 EDT
> Andrew Dunbar <hippietrail@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Well pretty soon we're going to need a real
> replacement. Dom and I are both in favour of the
> replacement being UTF-8 but some here seem to want
> UTF-32.
UTF-8 is an encoding scheme that is intended to allow Unicode
communication between separate processes over 8-bit channels.
For that it is great, but that's about the only thing it is really good
for. UTF-8 processing is cumbersome, and as such it is completely
unsuitable format to use for the piecetable. We need a fixed with
encoding for that, such as the curent UCS-2, i.e., UTF-32.
Tomas
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