On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 10:33:17PM +0100, Philipp Reichmuth wrote:
> I'm not sure, the variable-length-ness leads to some bad performance
> hits on searching and string indexing, especially backwards; also,
I don't think we do too much of that. Even user find/replace is slow
because of our architecture and UTF8 will not significantly change that
- fixing our algorithms will.
> this can be really hard to debug. There is really little reason to use
> UTF-8 except for staying as ASCII-transparent and as compatible with
> 8-bit channels as possible.
what about storage ? I would hazard a guess that most of our users can
encode most of their document text in the first byte.
regards
john
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