Monte Goulding wrote:
>> On 23 Jun 2017, at 7:18 am, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>>
>> is that true that UTF-16 gives us two-bytes per char across the
>> board?
>
> That’s true (the 16 means 16 bit) but internally strings may be either
> native 8 bit or unicode 16 bit.
How can we know which is in use for a given string?
Suppose I wanted to process a lot of text, so performance is critical.
Using bytes would be optimal, since any chunk type or even Unicode
characters may vary in length.
So if I wanted to create an index of byte offsets into a large chunk of
text, how would I know how long a character is?
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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