From: Doug Ewell (dewell@roadrunner.com)
Date: Tue Feb 05 2008 - 23:42:54 CST
If you read Slava Pestov's in-depth description of the string format:
http://factor-language.blogspot.com/2008/01/some-things-ive-been-working-on.html
you'll see it's quite a bit (pun not intended) more complicated than
simply a 24-bit format.
I suppose rather than second-guess the efficiency or wisdom of such a
scheme, we ought to be glad the Factor guys at least have a plan to
support all 17 planes. IMHO there are still far too many Unicode
implementations that impose a severe performance or complexity penalty
on the BMP, or don't support it at all.
-- Doug Ewell * Fullerton, California, USA * RFC 4645 * UTN #14 http://www.ewellic.org http://www1.ietf.org/html.charters/ltru-charter.html http://www.alvestrand.no/mailman/listinfo/ietf-languages ˆ
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