RE: UTF-24

Doug, Most likely because no modern computer uses a 3-byte (24-bit) internal processing unit, and because it would be false economy for real-world Unicode text (see (1) and (2) above). What would be worse is to have an implementation like the old IBM 360 computers where the 24 bit addresses

Re: UTF-24

Pim Blokland wrote: Why is there no UTF-24? Well, I once proposed UTF-20... See, these MathText characters take up a lot of space. No matter how you encode them; UTF-8, UTF-16 or UTF-32; they always are 4 bytes long. True for them alone, in those UTFs. Short of defining another Unicode encoding,