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<CAE1XxDHn0wgwJpm+cNLSdzv=ccvoz1u5o6em7xwxnqs4u0z...@mail.gmail.com>,
on 01/10/2014
at 09:50 AM, John Gilmore <[email protected]> said:
>As soon, however, as you need to support
>o three or more different roman-alphabet natural languages, or
>o a roman-alphabet language and a non-alphabetic Asian language
>you need UTF-16.
Nonsense; it's strictly an efficiency issue, and depends on the
relative frequencies with which you use various characters and the
degree to which you do locale-dependent functions.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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