A 11:54 99-03-19 -0800, A. Vine a écrit :
>schererm@us.ibm.com wrote:
>>
>>
>> > We also think that we should switch our representation to UTF-8. On
>> > every platform we current plan to support, this would eliminate the
>> > encoding conversion step (as well as a lot of memory usage) for any
>> > run of text which includes only ASCII characters. For obvious
>> > reasons, and with no offense intended to the majority of the world who
>> > primarily use double-byte encoded characters, we believe this to be a
>> > common case worth optimizing.
>>
>> this optimizes for one language while making it a lot less efficient to use
>> just about every other language including all european ones, as well as the
>> line and paragraph separator, the euro, the formatting characters,
>> dingbats, etc.
>
>Not true. Not only does ASCII represent significantly more languages than
just
>English (Hawaiian, Indonesian, Latin, some Native American languages,
etc.), but
>many Latin script languages are mostly ASCII (e.g. German, French, Spanish,
>Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, etc.).
[Alain]
Try to filter non-ASCII from French and messages are unreadable at best,
even if about 97% of characters are indeed ASCII (statistics on some
corpuses I have)... but the 3% remaining is highly relevant, do not forget
to mention, and essential.
Let's have the sense of humour.
(; (:
Alain LaBonté
Québec
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