Re: Naive HAMMER question

[Erik Wikström <Erik-wikstrom@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2008-01-15 04:55, Bill Hacker wrote:
> Matthew Dillon wrote:
>>     The issue is not specifically addressed in DragonFly (UTF8 is kinda
>>     a cop-out but I still think its better then using UTF16 or UTF32).
>> 
> More 'effective compromise' than cop-out.
> 
> UTF-8's great advantage is that it doesn't much intrude when one sticks 
> with plain ASCII or any of the several common encodings based on same.
> 
> UTF-16 thus seems to have fallen into the gap. Not widely seen in the wild.

As I understand things UTF-16 is quite commonly used for internal
representation of strings, however it might depend on what platform one
is using. If Wikipedia can be trusted it is used internally in both MS
WinNT and Mac OS X, and the Java, .Net, Qt, and Pyton languages too.

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Erik Wikström