27 Apr
2011
27 Apr
'11
7:34 a.m.
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Jasper Van der Jeugt
UTF-8 and UTF-16 both have advantages and disadvantages, which actually makes it a pretty complicated choice. I've written about this a little in my [3] (especially see Tom Harper's master dissertation if you're interested in the subject).
About [3]: conversion to UTF-8 from UTF-8 while reading isn't O(1) because you have to at least check if it really is valid UTF-8. On the other hand, writing shouldn't need anything because the library guarantees that all Texts have valid internal representations. Thanks, -- Felipe.