On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 05:56:10PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bj?nnes wrote: > All compiler writers (gcc) and library writers that I see messages > from say that UCS-4/UTF-32 is the way to go for internal storage.
I've seen different and even posted a mail archive message advocating utf16 that you agreed with at the time, iirc. > As to wasting space... depends on alignment issues I guess. ?? It's nothing to do with alignment. It's do with >90% of characters that lyx will ever manage being encodable in 16 bits. Using UCS4 wastes 16 bits per character. john
