> 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. > 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
