Re: Internal Representation of Strings

Marco van de Voort <marcov@stack.nl>
Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:41:09 +0000 (UTC)

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From: Marco van de Voort <marcov@stack.nl>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:41:09 +0000 (UTC)
Organization: Stack Usenet News Service
References: 09-02-051 09-02-077 09-02-092 09-02-104 09-02-112
Keywords: i18n
Posted-Date: 24 Feb 2009 07:50:14 EST

On 2009-02-22, Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@aol.com> wrote:
>> in general, UTF-8 takes less space than UTF-16 (and mixes much better with
>> code designed for ASCII), but some many languages like UTF-16 more
>> potentially because it works better when being treated as an array.
>
> This IMO is a typical misconception of English-only speakers, which have
> caused a lot of trouble in the evolution of programming languages :-(


Latin only? But afaik even for Cyrillic and the Semitic language group it
doesn't matter.


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