On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Andre' Poenitz wrote:
>
> Concerning the multi-byte encoding: We should have a discussion whether
> it is sensible to use Unicode internally. The world is changing and last
> years' arguments won't fit anymore. We could get rid of almost all of
> the encoding stuff at the price of double sized buffers plus quite a bit
> of work. But in the end thing would be much simpler....
My instinct says that most people aren't going to care in the slightest
about a doubling of internal buffer sizes. The combination of cheap
memory, cheap hard disks, and sensible VM systems makes this not much of
an issue, IMO.
Of course, if we're space-paranoid we could use UTF, or whatever it's
called. That's more work, though.
Jules
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