Alvaro Herrera wrote:
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 05:37:32PM -0400, Joe wrote:

If it stored character data in Unicode (UCS-16) it would always take
up two-bytes per character.

Really?  We don't support UCS-16, for good reasons (we'd have to rewrite
several parts of the code in order to support '0' bytes embedded in
strings ... we use regular C strings extensively).

I'm sorry. I meant to say UCS-2, which by definition uses 16 bits = 2 octets = 2 bytes. To support an even larger code space, you could use UCS-4 which always uses 4 bytes.

Joe


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