Re: A quick clarification please.

From: Karl Ove Hufthammer (huftis@bigfoot.com)
Date: Mon Apr 22 2002 - 10:08:45 EDT

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    Martin Sevior <msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au> wrote in
    news:Pine.OSF.4.21.0204222354500.21132-100000@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.
    edu.au:

    > If we use UTF-32 as our internal format in the
    > piecetable will we still need two or more 32-bit numbers to
    > represent combining characters?

    Yes.

    > I really don't like the idea of variable length strings per
    > glyph

    Also note that a string can contain more, less *or* the same number
    of glyphs as the number of characters. 

    -- 
Karl Ove Hufthammer

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