Re: [idn] Unicode tagging

[James Seng]

UCS-2 or UCS-4? Correct me if I am wrong, if you are using UCS-2, please
explain how you going to use those incoming Han ideograph into Plane 2?

UTF-8 isnt that bad for current Han ideograph 3400-F900. It translate to
3 bytes. Current native encodings takes 2 bytes anyway.

-James Seng

Edmon wrote:
> 
> > > Wouldnt using uniform byte-length characters largely solve the
> problem?...
> >
> > no.  that would just make the queries and responses larger than necessary.
> >
> 
> This is not true... UTF-8 is consistently lengthier for Chinese than UCS-2
> 
> > Keit
> 
> Edmon