From: Tomas Frydrych (tomas@frydrych.uklinux.net)
Date: Tue Apr 23 2002 - 10:28:03 EDT
> Andrew Dunbar wrote:
> I want the piecetable and layout engine to work for
> all the world's languages. Being optimized for speed
> is also good. I won't sacrifice #1 for #2.
The question of choosing utf-8 over utf-32 or vice versa has nothing
at all to do with the combining characters. utf-8 does not make
handling combining characters easier, nor does utf-32 make it
more difficult, or the other way around. utf-8 will not make AW any
more capable of handling all world's languages than utf-32. utf-8
requires more processing time for all people, utf-32 more memory
for most people. That's the only objective issue in making the
choice. Another, subjective, issue to consider is that transition to
utf-32 will be very simple and transition to uft-8 will not.
> Microsoft Word handles these things well.
MS Word does not use utf-8 internally. But that is neither an
argument for using it, nor for not using it.
Tomas
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