On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 06:00:55PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote:
On 12 Sep 2000, at 11:57, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
I would go for UCS-2 (UTF-16) as soon as possible as the preferred
internal encoding.
You know, of course, that UCS-2 ne UTF-16 (specifically, surrogates).
Surrogates, schmurrogates. I will worry about them when we get the
other stuff working first.
What's Perl's take on characters where ord($c) > 0xffff, anyway?
(These two issues intertwine, since if you use UTF-16, and hence
surrogates, it's natural to expect support for characters up to [I think]
0x10ffff, while if you just use UCS-2, you're restricted to 0xffff.)
Cheers,
Philip
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