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Re: unicode is a fail

From Mark Carroll <mtbc@bcs.org>
Newsgroups comp.programming
Subject Re: unicode is a fail
Date 2015-12-02 16:32 +0000
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On 02 Dec 2015, fir wrote:
(snip)
> i think general convention of using utf-32 everywhere could repair this mess
> maybe though 1) some maybe can see this crazy as utf-32 is probably now least
> used 2) im not sure (if utf-32 is as simple as it should i mean one letter is
> one 32-bit int in memory and no other things do occur)

If one's typically working with text that ISO-8859 could handle,
UTF-32 is a fairly wasteful way of storing such text.

-- Mark

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unicode is a fail fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2015-12-01 08:34 -0800
  Re: unicode is a fail Mark Carroll <mtbc@bcs.org> - 2015-12-01 17:43 +0000
    Re: unicode is a fail fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2015-12-02 08:00 -0800
      Re: unicode is a fail Mark Carroll <mtbc@bcs.org> - 2015-12-02 16:32 +0000
        Re: unicode is a fail fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2015-12-02 09:53 -0800

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