>>>>> "Bryan" == Bryan O'Sullivan <b...@serpentine.com> writes:
Bryan> On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 10:46 PM, Michael Snoyman
<mich...@snoyman.com> wrote:
Bryan> When I'm writing a web app, my code is sitting on a Linux
Bryan> system where the default encoding is UTF-8, communicating
Bryan> with a database speaking UTF-8, receiving request bodies in
Bryan> UTF-8 and sending response bodies in UTF-8. So converting all
Bryan> of that data to UTF-16, just to be converted right back to
Bryan> UTF-8, does seem strange for that purpose.
Bryan> Bear in mind that much of the data you're working with can't
Bryan> be readily trusted. UTF-8 coming from the filesystem, the
Bryan> network, and often the database may not be valid. The cost of
Bryan> validating it isn't all that different from the cost of
Bryan> converting it to UTF-16.
But UTF-16 (apart from being an abomination for creating a hole in the
codepoint space and making it impossible to ever etxend it) is slow to
process compared with UTF-32 - you can't get the nth character in
constant time, so it seems an odd choice to me.
--
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