On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 11:01:06PM -0400, John Weiss wrote:
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> Subject: Unicode (was Re: enormous)
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> On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 04:19:38PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bj?nnes wrote:
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> > John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> > | I thought the point of UTF-8 was that ASCII could be stored in 7-bit
> > | values ?
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> > yes, but we do not really want to use utf-8 internally.
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> Hmm... although it would save memory for those of us working primarily
> with langauges that only use Latin-1 ASCII, it does make rendering
> trickier. You'd basically have to convert from utf-8 to full Unicode
> on-the-fly, as you displayed.
How expensive is this really? The correspondence between the two looks
like real simple math, like a ten-liner, where US-ASCII would branch off
at the first, and latin1 at the second branch. Would it take a
non-negligible time compared to physically rendering the character in X?
> So, it seems that we're stuck with char (you're using a single
> language, one that only needs Latin-1 ASCII) or wchar_t. Any way to
> select one type or the other at run time? ;) Didn't think so...
>
> Now, when it comes to *file* *format*, we could certainly support
> utf-8 (as well as utf-16 or full UC3).
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