From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Apr 23 2002 - 11:17:08 EDT
--- Tomas Frydrych <tomas@frydrych.uklinux.net>
wrote: >
> > 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.
I didn't think people understood the combining
character issue well enough but it seems they do now.
You're completely right and I think I'm sold on the
idea of UTF-32 internally now that we've wrangled it
all out.
Andrew Dunbar.
> > 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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