Abdulaziz Ghuloum scripsit: > Unicode code points currently require 21 bits of storage > if represented uniformly. That number is unlikely to > increase beyond 32 bits in any foreseeable future.
It's extremely unlikely to go past 21 bits, in fact. (I've won several bets of the form "Unicode won't need an increase in bits in the next N years). If we meet the Galactic Empire, we may need to go to a 64-bit code, but we'll mostly need that at the interface to the local net. > Storage (disk, ram, L_n cache, etc.) has been increasing > exponentially on all computational devices (personal > computers, PDAs, phones, ipods, et cetera). True of consumer devices. Not true of industrial embedded devices. -- Unless it was by accident that I had John Cowan offended someone, I never apologized. [email protected] --Quentin Crisp http://www.ccil.org/~cowan _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
