Re: utf-8 vs. utf-32

From: Karl Ove Hufthammer (huftis@bigfoot.com)
Date: Wed Apr 24 2002 - 13:04:39 EDT

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    Andrew Dunbar <hippietrail@yahoo.com> wrote in
    news:20020423161830.37821.qmail@web9604.mail.yahoo.com:

    > Surrogates will be very rare.
    >
    > Most Chinese documents will have a couple since many
    > common Chinese names require characters that are very
    > uncommon outside of family names.

    Well, I think 'a couple' is rare. As long as we *correctly* handle
    surrogates in UTF-16, this isn't much of a reason for using UTF-8. 

    -- 
Karl Ove Hufthammer

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