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On Wednesday 12 November 2003 19:46, Alastair Tse wrote: |
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> UCS4 uses significantly more memory than UCS2. For those who are not |
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> familiar with unicode, UCS2 means representing unicode characters with |
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> 16 bit words and UCS4 means representing unicode characters in 32 bit |
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> words. Not that both Redhat (>9) and Debian (unstable) have python-2.3 |
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> compiled with UCS4 by default. |
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> Currently, you get UCS4 if you have "cjk" in your USE flags because |
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> the only language to use the extra pane in UCS4 are CJK langauges. |
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> I've been using UCS4 for a while now and it works without any |
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> problems. |
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Isn't it true that it is possible to to encode the few 4 byte characters |
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into a number of 2byte sequences. I think that is more than enough for |
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most cases (who needs to read/write cjk anyway ;-) ) |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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