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Re: Proposal for 2 Byte Unicode implementation in gcc and glibc

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Subject: Re: Proposal for 2 Byte Unicode implementation in gcc and glibc
From: Florian Weimer <fw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 09 Aug 2000 08:53:05 +0200
In-reply-to: Ping Yeh's message of "Wed, 09 Aug 2000 14:40:34 +0800"
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  Ping Yeh <pyeh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> > Hmm.  Why is UTF-16 so crazy? ;-)
> 
> But UTF-16 is not fixed width [surrogates], thus not in the same
> ball park when we are talking about wchar_t.

UTF-32 isn't fixed width either (think of combining characters).  To
be honest, I don't see your point here.
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