Ketil Malde wrote: > I'd point out that it seems at least as unfair to optimize for CJK at > the cost of Western languages.
Quite true. > [...speculative calculation from which we conclude that] > a given document translated > between Chinese and English should occupy roughly the same space in > UTF-8, but be 2.5 times longer in English for UTF-16. Could be. We really need data on that. If it's practical to maintain different backends with identical public APIs and different internal encodings, that would be the best. After a few years of widespread usage, would know a lot more. Regards, Yitz _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
