OpenEuphoria

Re: Profiling Under Windows & String Size

• Posted by Kat <KSMiTH at PELL.NET> Aug 05, 1999
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----- Original Message -----
From: Roderick Jackson <rjackson at CSIWEB.COM>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 1999 8:38 AM
Subject: Re: Profiling Under Windows & String Size


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> According to other postings on this list, Unicode is tragically
> insufficient for its most notable goal: handling global character sets.
> Norm's Chinese characters alone (for his Eu project) number--what, around
> 45,000? And then Japanese takes the same number... already the 65,536
> characters of Unicode are blown away, by only two languages. Apparently,
> Unicode simply CANNOT do what it is trying to, at least not without severe
> compromise. That being the case, why try to make use of it? If anything, a
> 3-byte scheme (or 4-byte) would make more sense (Super Unicode?), but then
> those of us with languages that do just fine under ASCII might start to
> balk. 

And so.. Eu uses 4 bytes per char, and reducing to one byte per char doesn't
make a lot of sense if you want Eu used outside the usa in the future.
Anyways, it's just my opinion. Maybe the rest of the world will convert to
english.

Kat