On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 11:18:00AM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 12:13:01PM +0000, Simon Cozens wrote:
> > IMHO, the first thing we need to design and code is the API and runtime
> > library, since everything else builds on top of that, and we can design other
> > stuff in parallel with coding it. (A lot of it will be grunt work.)
> >
> > So, before we start even thinking about what we need, it's time to look at the
> > vexed question of string representation. How do we do Unicode without getting
> > into the horrendous non-Latin1 cockups we're seeing on p5p right now? Larry
>
> As painful as it may sound (codingwise) I would urge to spare some
> thought to using (internally) UTF-32 for those encodings for which
> UTF-8 would be *longer* than the UTF-32 (mainly the Asian scripts).
>
Or we should start studying SCSU.
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