Re: Unicode (was Re: enormous)

[Andre Poenitz]

> A compromise solution would be to internally, and transparently,
> convert a "block" of text from UTF-8 to 32 bits representation and back.

I would not even look at this as a compromise. This should be the most
efficient approach in most circumstances.
 
> The size of the block? Uhhh... what about the whole loaded document? :-)

No problem with that. Actual "text" makes only a fraction of all data
structures used..

Andre'

PS: I somehow seem to remember that kind of discussion a few weeks ago...

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