On Sep 20, 2009, at 7:59 AM, Andy Wingo wrote:

> Guile does this FWIW; though it skips 16-bit, having either latin-1 or
> utf-32.

Out of curiosity, why don't implementations use 24 bits per code point  
as the "full" Unicode string representation? Is the combination of the  
extra time spent in unaligned loads and masking not worth the space  
efficiency benefit?

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