On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 12:41:55AM +0200, Charles de Miramon wrote: > One point made by Lars Knoll in his presentation is that the difficulty when > you go down the Unicode lane is not to degradate the performance > for 'normal' users too much. With ucs-4, if I'm correct, you multiply by 4 > the memory size of a LyX document, with ucs-2, you multiply by 2.
Four times the plain character storage, yes. But there is a lot of other overhead, especially for shorter paragraphs, so the document won't suddenly eat up four times the original storage. Andre'
