James Seng/Personal wrote:
... > > you can justify why designing a system that can handle ASCII as a fallback > > and can automatically support 8/16/32 bits Unicode is not a good design, > > then I think my thinking is wrong. > > The question is really why 8/16/32 bit Unicode is better than 5bit (ACE)? I think the former is based on character and the latter is based on string. Maybe it is a advantage of the former for design many Applications. > > 8 is not neccessary better than 5 just like 32 is not neccessary better than > 8. It is all engineering trade off. > > So what is the advantage of moving towards more bits? And how much more is > enough? > > ps: I am not agreeing or disagreeing with a transition. I reserved my > judgement later. > > -James Seng -- ****************************************************** * China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) * * Sun Guonian No.4, S.4 Street * * Zhong Guan Cun * * Phone: +86-10-62619750 ext. 3016 Haidian District * * Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Beijing * * http://www.cnnic.net.cn/ P.O.Box: 100080 * * �й�����������Ϣ���� ����� * ******************************************************
