Re:UCS vs. UTF-8 as Internal String Encoding
by lisper on Friday May 29, 2015 @11:22AM
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I wrote:
> (And yes, I know that UTF-8 is self-synchronizing. But that doesn't help with the problem I'm talking about, and if you think it does then you haven't understood the problem.)
I would like to retract this, and apologize for the snarky tone. I had mis-remembered the design of UTF-8, and so pretty much everything I said was wrong (well, not all of it was wrong, but the parts that weren't were exactly what you were saying).
I'd edit or delete my comment if I could, but the deadline has passed so this is the best I can do.
> (And yes, I know that UTF-8 is self-synchronizing. But that doesn't help with the problem I'm talking about, and if you think it does then you haven't understood the problem.)
I would like to retract this, and apologize for the snarky tone. I had mis-remembered the design of UTF-8, and so pretty much everything I said was wrong (well, not all of it was wrong, but the parts that weren't were exactly what you were saying).
I'd edit or delete my comment if I could, but the deadline has passed so this is the best I can do.