Re: Proposal for 2 Byte Unicode implementation in gcc and glibc

[H. Peter Anvin]

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By author:    Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In newsgroup: linux.utf8
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>   Ulrich Drepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> > "Too late"?  If *never* would happen.  Every sane system has wchar_t a
> > 32bit type.  Even the AIX people realized this and will switch to a
> > 32bit type once they can figure out how to handle the compatiblity
> > problem.
> 
> Hmm.  Why is UTF-16 so crazy? ;-)
> 

UTF-16 pretty much combines the bad qualities of UTF-8
(non-fixed-size) with the bad qualities of UTF-32 (large size, byte
order issues, incompatibilities with existing data), and adds a few of
its own (limited range.)

        -hpa
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