On 23 Jan 2014, at 01:23, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Why UTF-16 rather than UTF-8? > > The latter would seem more compact, and appears to be the default for nearly > every other dev tool (and text processors and so much more).
Whilst development tools may use UTF-8 for source code encoding, many use a different encoding for string data. Take Python for instance, the default source code encoding is UTF-8 but strings are either ISO8859-1, UCS-2 or UCS-4 encoding depending on their content. Source and strings in Delphi are both UTF-16 as they are in OS X Cocoa. Regards Peter _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
