Stefan O'Rear wrote:
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 11:05:38PM +0200, Johan Tibell wrote:
I do not believe that anyone was seriously advocating multiple blessed
encodings. The main question is *which* encoding to bless. 99+% of
text I encounter is in US-ASCII, so I would favor UTF-8. Why is UTF-16
better for me?
All software I write professional have to support 40 languages
(including CJK ones) so I would prefer UTF-16 in case I could use
Haskell at work some day in the future. I dunno that who uses what
encoding the most is good grounds to pick encoding though. Ease of
implementation and speed on some representative sample set of text may
be.
UTF-8 supports CJK languages too. The only question is efficiency
Due to the additional complexity of handling UTF-8 -- EVEN IF the actual
text processed happens all to be US-ASCII -- will UTF-8 perhaps be less
efficient than UTF-16, or only as fast?
Isaac
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