On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 6:19 PM, John Millikin <jmilli...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ruby, which has an enormous Japanese userbase, solved the problem by > essentially defining Text = (Encoding, ByteString), and then > re-implementing text logic for each encoding. This allows very > efficient operation with every possible encoding, at the cost of > increased complexity (caching decoded characters, multi-byte handling, > etc). This code introduce overhead as each function call needs to dispatch on the encoding, which is unlikely to be known statically. I don't know if this matters or not (yet another thing that needs to be measured). -- Johan
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