At 1:20 AM +0000 10/30/02, Simon Cozens wrote:
I'd agree. Thinking UTF-8 is generally a bad idea.[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Mitchell) writes:(I'm thinking utf8 here).I'd strongly advise against that.
If you think anything, think fixed-size code points, since that's what you're ultimately going to get. Probably 8 bit if you're ASCII, Latin1, or EBCDIC, 16 if you're Shift-JIS or Big5 (either one), and 32 if you're dealing with Unicode.
It's possible you'll get UTF-8 (or UTF-16) but I think you'll be hard-pressed to get there, at least without explicit hoop-jumping. I certainly hope so, at least.
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