In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On 2007-09-27, Deborah Goldsmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sep 26, 2007, at 11:06 AM, Aaron Denney wrote: > >>> UTF-16 has no advantage over UTF-8 in this respect, because of > >>> surrogate > >>> pairs and combining characters. > >> > >> Good point. > > > > Well, not so much. As Duncan mentioned, it's a matter of what the most > > common case is. UTF-16 is effectively fixed-width for the majority of > > text in the majority of languages. Combining sequences and surrogate > > pairs are relatively infrequent. > > Infrequent, but they exist, which means you can't seek x/2 bytes ahead > to seek x characters ahead. All such seeking must be linear for both > UTF-16 *and* UTF-8.
And in [Char] for all these years, yet I don't hear people complaining. Most string processing is linear and does not need random access to characters. Duncan _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
