On 01/11/03 Nicholas Clark wrote: > > This allows us to declare 8bit characters and strings of those and all the > > stuff we're used to with C like unions ... (C# has 16bit chars, and strings > > are UTF8 encoded , IIRC) ... > > That doesn't sound right. But if it is right, then it sounds very wrong. > > (Translation: Are you sure about your terms, because what you describe sounds > wonky. Hence if they are using UTF8 but with 16 bit chars, that feels like a > silly design decision to me. Perl 5 performance is not enjoying a variable > length encoding, but using an 8 bit encoding in 8 bit chars at least makes > it small in memory.)
The CLR runtimes use 16 bit chars and UTF16-encoded strings (at least as far as it's visible to the 'user' programs). lupus -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] debian/rules [EMAIL PROTECTED] Monkeys do it better
