Re: EuGTK and UTF-8
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Dec 17, 2012
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The key factor would seem to be which languages you normally use. Personally, I only use English, so UTF-8 works very well for me, and for normal purposes, I don't even need to be aware that I'm using Unicode at all, since it generally looks the same as ASCII. If I used a different language with a different alphabet, then I'd probably prefer UTF-16 or UTF-32.
The only connection I can see here is the size of text files. Under UTF-8, you'd need 6 bytes per charcter for hanzi or hangul - but UCS-4 would only require 4 bytes, and UTF-16 would require only 2 bytes if you're lucky (but still 4 at most).
Of course, disk is cheap these days. This isn't a major concern for me.
The world extends beyond the Suez Canal, and China is probably the richest country in the world.
The US has a larger GDP. If you're willing to count the European Union, the EU also has a larger GDP.
Soon the GDP of China may surpass that of the US (I don't take this as a given, however, they have a lot of challenges ahead of them), but the people will still be poorer. Their growth is basically them playing catch up with the rest of the developed world, and most of their population has a long way to go before that happens.
Matt
Agreed. http://seeingredinchina.com/2011/02/22/chinas-gdp-doesnt-mean-what-you-think-it-does/
