Hi, On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 03:57:19PM +0200, s. keeling wrote: > Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Why are you against switching to UTF-8? Disk space? There really is > > no other disadvantage, and even the diskspace arguement doesn't > > count for much unless your drive is mostly uncompressed text files. > > Why would I be _for_ switching? I'm a unilingual Anglophile. utf-8 > would gain me nothing. I'm glad utf-8 (et al) finally exists for > those of you who who can use it or need it. However, it's irrelevant > here. I only know English, and can puzzle out some words in other > related western European languages. > > I'd guess my $HOME probably is mostly uncompressed text, source and > documentation.
If you use only ASCII characters in UTF-8 encoded text file, it is exactly same as ASCII file in size and contents. Only when you have those alian characters, UTF-8 makes special multi byte sequence. If you are talking alian character support bloating data size, it is not UTF-8 encoded data. The fixed width encoding system UCS-4 etc. used to represent data in program tends to bload memory consumption of application. This memory consumption happens even if you use "C" environment. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Character_Set http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/getwiki/html/ch09.en.html#thelocale Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
