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From: Mark Carroll <mtbc@bcs.org>
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Subject: Re: unicode is a fail
Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2015 16:32:18 +0000
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On 02 Dec 2015, fir wrote:
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> 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