Hi,
On 02/05/2014 00:03, John Downey wrote:
I have actually always been a fan of how .NET did this. The System.String type
is opinionated in how it is stored internally and does not allow anyone to
change that (unlike Ruby). The conversion from String to byte[] is done using
explicit conversion methods like:
Unfortunately the .NET string type does not support UCS4 and as such is a
nightmare to deal with. Also because the internal encoding is not UTF-8 *any*
interaction with the outside world (ignoring the win32 api) is going through an
encode/decode step which can be unnecessary.
For instance if you would do that on Linux you would decode from utf-8 to your
internal UCS4 encoding, then encode back to utf-8 on the way back to the
terminal. (Aside from that, 32bit for a charpoint is too large as unicode does
not go in more than 21bit or something. Useless)
Regards,
Armin
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