xt section, which taught me that I shouldn't
care.
John
Microsoft
-Original Message-
From: Doug Ewell [mailto:dewell@;adelphia.net]
Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 8:26 PM
To: Unicode Mailing List
Cc: Carl W. Brown
Subject: Re: UTF-16 vs UTF-32 (was IBM AIX 5 and GB18030
Carl W
Doug,
> > However, 16 bit characters were a hard enough sell in the good old
> > days. If we had started out withug 2bit characters we would still be
> > dreaming about Unicode.
>
> I think Carl meant "with 32-bit characters." I don't know what kind of
> word "withug" is (Old English?), but I li
Carl W. Brown wrote:
> Converting from UCS-2 to UTF-16 is just like converting from SBCS to
> DBCS. For folks who think DBCS it is no problem. Those who went from
> DBCS to Unicode to simplify their lives I am sure are not happy.
Ken made me laugh last March by referring to this as
"... a
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