Hi Mark, Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> writes:
> I have a compromise proposal, which could be implemented for 2.0.x: > > We keep wide (UTF-32) stringbufs as-is, but we change narrow stringbufs > to UTF-8, along with a flag that indicates whether it is known to be > ASCII-only. The whole point of the narrow/wide distinction was to avoid variable-width encodings. In addition, we’d end up with 3 cases (ASCII, UTF-8, or UTF-32) instead of 2, which seems quite complex to me. What do you think of moving to narrow = ASCII, as I suggested earlier? Thanks, Ludo’.
