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Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals?

From	Ken Wesson <kwesson@gmail.com>
Subject	Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals?
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Date	2011-02-05 04:48 +0100
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On Fri, 04 Feb 2011 22:30:09 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

> On 04-02-2011 22:21, Ken Wesson wrote:
>> On Fri, 04 Feb 2011 17:02:37 -0800, Mike Schilling wrote:
>>
>>> "Arne Vajhøj"<arne@vajhoej.dk>  wrote in message
>>> news:4d4ca055$0$23765$14726298@news.sunsite.dk...
>>>> Which is a bit surprising since high code points were introduced when
>>>> .NET came around.
>>>>
>>>> But they probably had a compatibility issue with p/Invoke and Win32
>>>> API, COM interop, C++ mixed mode etc. that all had to work with
>>>> existing Win32 model of 16 bit wchars.
>>>
>>> Or, relentless micro-optimizers that they are, Microsoft wasn't
>>> willing to bite off the size/performance issues.
>>
>> Relentless micro-optimizers of what, their cashflow?
> 
> Micro optimization in the meaning it has among programmers.

Microsoft doesn't know beans about optimizing program code, as anyone 
who's waited five mintues for Windows to start up and become fully 
responsive can attest. :)

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Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-02-04 22:30 -0500
  Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-02-07 19:16 -0500
  Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-02-07 18:26 -0500
  Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-02-06 11:15 -0500
    Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Ken Wesson <kwesson@gmail.com> - 2011-02-07 04:15 +0100
      Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? "Mike Schilling" <mscottschilling@hotmail.com> - 2011-02-06 20:53 -0800
  Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Ken Wesson <kwesson@gmail.com> - 2011-02-05 07:15 +0100
    Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-02-06 09:25 -0500
    Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-02-05 08:58 -0500
  Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Ken Wesson <kwesson@gmail.com> - 2011-02-05 04:48 +0100
    Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? "Mike Schilling" <mscottschilling@hotmail.com> - 2011-02-04 21:46 -0800

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