Is unicode really your challenge in shrinking your memory footprint?

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Dos-Man 64 <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On Jul 23, 7:21 am, [email protected] wrote:
> > Must admit this is an unusual phobia. An Ansi only OS is a dying legacy.
> > Sent on the TELUS Mobility network with BlackBerry
> >
> >
> > Just a preference.
>
> I come from the DOS/3.1/95/98 world. They are all "dying". In fact,
> they're dead. They're also efficient and small. Unicode is bloat. It
> slows down string handling and wastes memory, often times in
> situations where the end user never uses anything but English anyway.
> >
>


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          Daniel

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