On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 09:21:53AM +0300, Martin Vermeer wrote:
> > Hmm... although it would save memory for those of us working primarily
> > with langauges that only use Latin-1 ASCII, it does make rendering
> > trickier. You'd basically have to convert from utf-8 to full Unicode
> > on-the-fly, as you displayed.
>
> How expensive is this really? The correspondence between the two looks
> like real simple math, like a ten-liner, where US-ASCII would branch off
> at the first, and latin1 at the second branch. Would it take a
> non-negligible time compared to physically rendering the character in X?
Speed is not the only issue. Storing the text internally as UTF8 will
probably make the code more complicated.
