16 Jan
2002
16 Jan
'02
9:05 a.m.
"Kent Karlsson" <kentk@md.chalmers.se> writes:
Everyone that is serious about Unicode and where efficiency is also of concern(!) target UTF-16 (MacOS, Windows, Epoc, Java, Oracle, ...).
Isn't it fairly common to use 32bit Unicode character types in C? I'm not sure I see the efficiency gain of UTF-16 over UTF-8 or UTF-32, as you still need the multi-unit character management as in UTF-8, while most of the time using more memory. Correct me if I'm wrong, but my impression is that UTF-16 was chosen partly on the assumption that all of Unicode would fit, and I'm not sure it's such an obvious choice today. -kzm -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants