> Andrew Dunbar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Well pretty soon we're going to need a real
> replacement.  Dom and I are both in favour of the
> replacement being UTF-8 but some here seem to want
> UTF-32.

UTF-8 is an encoding scheme that is intended to allow Unicode 
communication between separate processes over 8-bit channels. 
For that it is great, but that's about the only thing it is really good 
for. UTF-8 processing is cumbersome, and as such it is completely 
unsuitable format to use for the piecetable. We need a fixed with 
encoding for that, such as the curent UCS-2, i.e., UTF-32.

Tomas

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