On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Aaron Denney wrote: > > It's true that time-wise there are definite issues in finding character > boundaries.
UTF-16 has no advantage over UTF-8 in this respect, because of surrogate pairs and combining characters. Code points, characters, and glyphs are all different things, and it's very difficult to represent the latter two as anything other than a string of code points. Tony. -- f.a.n.finch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://dotat.at/ IRISH SEA: SOUTHERLY, BACKING NORTHEASTERLY FOR A TIME, 3 OR 4. SLIGHT OR MODERATE. SHOWERS. MODERATE OR GOOD, OCCASIONALLY POOR. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
