On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 11:52:10AM -0500, Kuba Ober wrote: > Well, could anybody tell what doesn't fit into ucs2? Or, are there any > unicode pages that are outside of ucs2?
As far as I know there are already more than 2^16 chinese characters if all historic variants are taken into account. 2^16 gets tight if artificial scripts like Klingon are included. If one starts again with "code pages" and similar, all the old cruft is back. 32 bits is the way to go... > The reason I'm asking is that it would really make QString <-> > basic_string<uint16_t> conversion very quick, and Lars would be happier > not having to QString'ify whole LyX, methinks. This certainly won't happen. Apart from that why do you believe that a quick conversion is necessary? Did this item show up in some profiler? Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)
