On 2009 Jan 13, at 22:43, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
On 2009 Jan 13, at 18:54, Sjoerd Visscher wrote:
It is not impossible, but a lot of work. And if you want to do it correctly you would have to support UTF-16 (BE of LE) and UTF-32 (BE of LE) as well. You can't expect someone to start writing utf encoders and decoders every time he needs a fast parser.

...whereas making a linked list of Word32 run quickly is trivial?

Correction:  a linked list of *indirect* Word32s.

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