Subject: Re: support for 32-bit Unicode
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Mon Feb 04 2002 - 21:28:04 CST
On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Tomas Frydrych wrote:
>
> > Actually it would add at most 1 - 2% to our document-based memory
> > requirements. Most of the memory requirements come from the the
> > piecetable frags, fp_run, all the const char strings used to define
> > text properties and fl_BlockLayout classes used to define our
> > document.
> Our postings must have crossed :-).
>
> > I won't accept UTF-8 for internal storage.
> I was not going to put it that strongly, but that is exactly how I feel
> about the issue.
>
> I have just tried to change UT_UCSChar to 32-bit, and there will be
> some work associated with the transition, as in places our code
> uses UT_uint16 in place of UT_UCSChar!. Also, on Windows, we
> will need to provide some 32->16 bit translation, but overall these
> changes should be straight forward -- I think we should add this on
> the list of immediate post 1.0 changes.
>
Great! This doesn't sound too hard.
Cheers
Martin
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