On 11/17/2010 12:02 PM, Marco van de Voort wrote:
In our previous episode, Michael Schnell said:
Only the ones where surrogates really matter.
Is is really viable to have the compiler/RTL try to automatically handle
these ugly beasts,
It is not viable not to. Either you implement unicode or not.
It's an users own choice to not be unicode compliant in his apps (e.g. if he
knows he never goes to the Eastern Asiatic market etc), but a runtime should
be as unicode compliant as reasonably possible.
Regarding that handling surrogate pairs needs tables while UTF/UCS
handling can be done by simple algorithms and that (AFAIK) surrogate
pairs are used only in certain environments (Mac and what else ?) I
think that viability is not an easy decision.
-Michael
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