> After spending several days in reading Unicode and ICU
> (oss.software.ibm.com) documentation I think it will will be enough to
> use a 16bit word. The unicode standard
> defines 21 bit to be used for unicode characters. The UTF-16 encoding
> uses special encodings
> to use characters above 0xffff.
16 Bit operations are much slower than comparable 8- and 32-bit operations
(up to a factor of 5!) on IA32. Since this is probably the most common
platform to run LyX on, this is a point to consider.
Without any checking I'd guess that a large part of LyX's memory
footprint is not due to "real text" but to all kinds of "supporting" data
structure, so I doubt 16 bit would buy us anything.
> Yes, but it will be good enough to be used for the LyX-file format I
> think.
That's a completely unrelated question.
Andre'
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