Re:Name: Illegitimate
by derleth on Friday April 27, 2012 @10:43PM
(#3901843)
Keep in mind UTF-8 can represent everything in Unicode without the surrogate pairs that make UTF-16 as annoying as it is.
UTF-8 is inherently variable-width, but it's a flat scheme in that one universal mechanism suffices to represent everything you can represent.
UTF-16 appears fixed-width until you realize it isn't, at which point you discover it's segmented and the segmentation scheme is both somewhat complex and likely to be missed entirely in naïve testing.
UTF-8 is inherently variable-width, but it's a flat scheme in that one universal mechanism suffices to represent everything you can represent.
UTF-16 appears fixed-width until you realize it isn't, at which point you discover it's segmented and the segmentation scheme is both somewhat complex and likely to be missed entirely in naïve testing.