--- Martin Sevior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Andrew, > If we use UTF-32 as our internal format in the > piecetable will > we still need two or more 32-bit numbers to > represent combining > characters?
Yes we will. We will need one for the base character and one for each combining character which combines with it. > If not, ie if UTF-32 can hold all unicode in a > single 32 bit number I vote > for that as our internal format. > > I really don't like the idea of variable length > strings per glyph in our > piecetable though I don't mind converting to that > when presenting text to > a GUI. There's really no way to avoid it and still support all languages via Unicode. Andrew Dunbar. > Cheers > > Martin > ===== http://linguaphile.sourceforge.net http://www.abisource.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com
