On 02/12/2012 06:29 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:27:34 -0500, Roy Smith wrote:
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Hopefully, we will eventually reach the point where storage is so cheap
that nobody minds how inefficient UTF-32 is and we all just start using
that. Life will be a lot simpler then. No more transcoding, a string
will just as many bytes as it is characters, and everybody will be happy
again.
I think you mean 4 times as many bytes as characters. Unless you have 32
bit bytes :)
Until you have 32 bit bytes, you'll continue to have encodings, even if
only a couple of them.
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