Re: Internal Representation of Strings

Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@aol.com>
Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:53:05 +0100

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From: Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@aol.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:53:05 +0100
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 09-02-051 09-02-077 09-02-092 09-02-104
Keywords: i18n
Posted-Date: 22 Feb 2009 18:35:28 EST

cr88192 schrieb:


> 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 :-(


DoDi


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