wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: > Short example. Writing an editor with something like the > FSR is simply impossible (properly).
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Text-Representations.html#Text-Representations "To conserve memory, Emacs does not hold fixed-length 22-bit numbers that are codepoints of text characters within buffers and strings. Rather, Emacs uses a variable-length internal representation of characters, that stores each character as a sequence of 1 to 5 8-bit bytes, depending on the magnitude of its codepoint[1]. For example, any ASCII character takes up only 1 byte, a Latin-1 character takes up 2 bytes, etc. We call this representation of text multibyte. ... [1] This internal representation is based on one of the encodings defined by the Unicode Standard, called UTF-8, for representing any Unicode codepoint, but Emacs extends UTF-8 to represent the additional codepoints it uses for raw 8- bit bytes and characters not unified with Unicode. " Jeremy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
