On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 10:02:40AM -0000, Tomas Frydrych wrote:
> I agree that having 32 UT_UCSChar would vaste lot of memory, and 
> I would like to see a case made first why we need to support 32-bit 
> Unicode.

One more note: If memory space is an issue, consider using UTF-16
with surrogate pairs.  See http://www.unicode.org/unicode/faq/utf_bom.html
for more information.  I heard from my colleague that OpenOffice.org uses
UTF-16 internally.  (BTW, glibc uses UCS4 internally AFAIK.)

Cheers,

Anthony

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