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

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>]

Followup to:  <87em3zpmj7.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
By author:    Florian Weimer <fw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
In newsgroup: linux.utf8
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>   Ulrich Drepper <drepper@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > "Too late"?  If *never* would happen.  Every sane system has wchar_t a
> > 32bit type.  Even the AIX people realized this and will switch to a
> > 32bit type once they can figure out how to handle the compatiblity
> > problem.
> 
> Hmm.  Why is UTF-16 so crazy? ;-)
> 

UTF-16 pretty much combines the bad qualities of UTF-8
(non-fixed-size) with the bad qualities of UTF-32 (large size, byte
order issues, incompatibilities with existing data), and adds a few of
its own (limited range.)

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