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On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 03:36:16PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > Variable width character sets are themselves hateful. I'll go further > and say that they are a spectacularly stupid idea, and that whoever > decreed them needs shootin'. Yes, being able to represent more than > 220-odd characters is a Good Idea. So damnit, just use 32-bit - or > 64-bit - characters. Then you'll be able to seek! And have to rewrite huge quantities of software. UTF-8 has its disadvantages, but there's very little hateful about it - it achieves what it sets out to do perfectly, and does so without many tools having to be rewritten. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxx.xxxx.xxxThere's stuff above here
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