Ivanko B schrieb:
Do you mean replacing a character in an UCS-2/UCS-4 string can be
implemented more efficiently than in an UTF-8/UTF-16 string?
Sure, just scan the string char by char as array elements and replace
as matches encounter. Like working with integer arrays.
This applies only to UCS4/UTF-32. In all other cases the overall byte
size of both characters may vary, due to escape sequences/surrogate
pairs. Ligatures also should be considered, so that every simplified
approach risks to be buggy. At least the size of both "characters"
should be compared, and a StringReplace should be used when both differ.
But the same applies to StringReplace as well, where substrings of the
same size can be replaced in-place :-)
DoDi
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