Re: [dev] [st] wide characters

[Alexander Sedov]

2013/4/15 Martti Kühne <mysat...@gmail.com>:
> -1 from me.
> It is utter madness to waste 32 (64 on x86_64) bits for a single
> glyph. According to a quick google those chars can become as wide as 6
> bytes, and believe me you don't want that, as long as there are
> mblen(3) / mbrlen(3)...
int is always 32 bits, and given we are already wasting that exact
amount of space for each glyph (char[4]), your point is somewhat weak.
I think the real reason is future diacritics support and potential
abitily to store multiple runes at one glyph.