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Hallo,
On 7/23/09, Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>
> One doesn't need wide strings to use unicode, utf-8 works fine.
>
> Microsoft made a bad call, and they're stuck with it, but Lua need not
> do so.
>
 UTF-8 is best for serialisation (writing text to disk, to socket
etc.). For in-memory strings it makes a lot of algorithms harder.
UCS-2 was a bad idea, but UTF-16 works perfectly well. UTF-32 is even
better.
-- 
-alex
http://www.ventonegro.org/

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