On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 02:25:59PM -0800, Hong Zhang wrote:
> I think you already mixed the codepoint vc character. What you will get is
> 10th codepoint, not 10th character.
I think you're confused. Codepoints *are* characters. Combining characters are
taken care of as per the RFC.
> The UTF-32 has its problems too, such as cache locality, memory footprint,
> encoding conversion.
I'm talking about UTF16. You're talking about UTF32.
Try talking about what I'm talking about.
> I said it is not common case
And I am saying that it is.
> You need to exmine the first two bytes for UTF-16 too, right?
Wrong.
> > UTF16 : s += 2; : O(1) : Good
> > UTF8 : s += UTF8WIDTH(*s) : O(n) : Bad
>
> What I don't understand where you really use random access of string?
I have been through this many, many times. I am not going through it
again.
You are mistaken, and explaining our point is not helping.
Let us agree to differ.
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sub UNIVERSAL::AUTOLOAD{ $UNIVERSAL::AUTOLOAD =~ s/::/ /; print
"$UNIVERSAL::AUTOLOAD "}; hacker perl another just;
