Re: 3rd-party cross-platform UTF-8 support

[Andy Heninger]

From: "Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> Why would UTF-16 be easier for internal processing than UTF-8?
> Both are variable-length encodings.
> 

Performance tuning is easier with UTF-16.  You can optimize for
BMP characters, knowing that surrogate pairs are sufficiently uncommon
that it's OK for them take a bail-out slow path.  

Andy Heninger
IBM, Cupertino, CA
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