On Wed, 27 Aug 2014 17:22:12 +0200 "Roberto E. Vargas Caballero" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > > If we only decode in one place, and encode in one place, then the > > adaptation to new standards is only to modify a typedef and the > > encode/decode routines (which should be modified anyway). > > What type do you think we should use? long, wchar_t or a new typedef?
A summary of what was discussed on IRC: * The change to UTF-32 would add a second string type and its merits. * St is not that slow in utf8decode and utf8encode. * There will be an experimental branch to see if the new changes work out and are worth the effort. Sincerely, Christoph Lohmann
