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

[Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Florian Weimer wrote on 2000-08-09 06:59 UTC:
> Some time ago, you strongly advocated for UTF-16.

When and where? Admittedly, I predicted in the original utf8 manpage
that sizeof(wchar_t) == 2 on Linux, but that was back in 1995, many
years before Plane1, UTF-16, and the STIX math proposal were on the
horizon. I also advocated that UCS-2 is for the moment a decent choice
for the internal frame buffer of xterm, vim, etc. (which can be changed
later easily to "UCS-3" or UCS-4 without any backwards compatibility
problems, once we have agreed on how to handle Plan1 fonts in X11).
However, I honestly don't remember ever having been a big fan of UTF-16.

Markus

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