> On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 01:30:04AM +0200, FRIGN wrote:
>On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 19:09:41 -0400
>Roger <rogerx.oss_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>Hey Roger,
>
>> I thought non-ASCII characters required 16 bits within UTF-8, versus just 8
>> bits for ASCII. Therefore more memory. More memory referencing, requires more
>> processing.
>
>I can't take you seriously, sorry. UTF-8 is the future, there's no way around it.
>You need multiples of 8 bit to store non-ASCII-codepoints, but UTF-8 is doing a
>great job.
I tend to agree too UTF-8 is the future.
>Keep in mind: For most text streams, you are dealing with ASCII-characters. This
>is one argument against UTF-16, which has a bottleneck in this regard.
Copy that.
--
Roger
http://rogerx.freeshell.org/
Received on Wed Apr 01 2015 - 02:48:47 CEST