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Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals?

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On Fri, 04 Feb 2011 22:28:57 -0800, Mike Schilling wrote:

> "Ken Wesson" <kwesson@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:4d4ceaf3$1@news.x-privat.org...
>> On Fri, 04 Feb 2011 21:46:56 -0800, Mike Schilling wrote:
>>
>>> "Ken Wesson" <kwesson@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>> news:4d4cc888$1@news.x-privat.org...
>>>> 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. :)
>>>
>>> Optimization and micro-optimization are not synonyms.
>>
>> No; the latter is a special case of the former.
> 
> The latter is quite often the direct opposite of the former.

If so, then it has been mis-named and you should clarify your original 
meaning.

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