On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:09:25 +0200 listmember <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> I am only considering in memory representation being UTF-32 (or > >> UCS-4). > > > > What do you mean with 'memory representation'? > > That, each char in a string in memory would be 4-bytes (or more); > yet, when saved on disk (or transmitted across the net etc.) it would > be UTF-8 compressed. IOW, no compression applied to in-memory strings. I thought my example described just that. If strings use 4 bytes per char then ASCII text will need 4 times more memory. Mattias _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - [email protected] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
