My email was before the rest of the emails in the thread. On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 8:58 PM, Miguel de Icaza <[email protected]> wrote: > If you read the rest of the thread, you will see that this issue has been > addressed. > > That said, we expect an email soon from Vance that might shed some light into > the future. > > Miguel. > >> On Jul 28, 2016, at 10:43 AM, Greg Young <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Is it really a good idea to use a different encoding than the CLR? >> Lots of people do stuff with unsafe code etc which would need to be >> changed. >> >> Also to add a bit of context (history) >> https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3a%2f%2fblog.coverity.com%2f2014%2f04%2f09%2fwhy-utf-16%2f%23.V5oZpJO7iko&data=01%7c01%7cmiguel%40microsoft.com%7cbb2d0ffe5ccb403e490b08d3b6f58d6a%7c72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7c1&sdata=WB8HaH1j5lMMtppTyZW7Mhb7qsRiEUlOa2z%2fU0TSO1I%3d >> is worth >> a read >> >> On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 3:47 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (mono) >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> From: [email protected] [mailto:mono-devel-list- >>>> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Jon Purdy >>>> >>>>> For historical reasons, System.String uses the UCS-2 character encoding, >>>> that is, UTF-16 without surrogate pairs. >>>> >>>>> However, most strings in typical .NET applications consist solely of ASCII >>>> characters, leading to wasted space: half of the bytes in a string are >>>> likely to >>>> be null bytes! >>> >>> What's wrong with UTF-8? >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mono-devel-list mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3a%2f%2flists.dot.net%2fmailman%2flistinfo%2fmono-devel-list&data=01%7c01%7cmiguel%40microsoft.com%7cbb2d0ffe5ccb403e490b08d3b6f58d6a%7c72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7c1&sdata=bL7QheTe8Bmvr9O08xUPrz4I788BRlPE%2f9ywHrFaJlM%3d >> >> >> >> -- >> Studying for the Turing test >> _______________________________________________ >> Mono-devel-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3a%2f%2flists.dot.net%2fmailman%2flistinfo%2fmono-devel-list&data=01%7c01%7cmiguel%40microsoft.com%7cbb2d0ffe5ccb403e490b08d3b6f58d6a%7c72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7c1&sdata=bL7QheTe8Bmvr9O08xUPrz4I788BRlPE%2f9ywHrFaJlM%3d
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