On 2009 Jan 13, at 18:54, Sjoerd Visscher wrote:
It is not impossible, but a lot of work. And if you want to do it correctly you would have to support UTF-16 (BE of LE) and UTF-32 (BE of LE) as well. You can't expect someone to start writing utf encoders and decoders every time he needs a fast parser.
...whereas making a linked list of Word32 run quickly is trivial? -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] [email protected] system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] [email protected] electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH
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