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Re: High-Speed UTF-8 to UTF-16 Conversion

Colin Paul Adams wrote:

"Rich" == Rich Felker <dalias@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: 

    Rich> Indeed, this was what I was thinking of. Thanks for
    Rich> clarifying. BTW, any idea WHY they brought the UTF-16
    Rich> nonsense to DOM/DHTML/etc.?

I don't know for certain, but I can speculate well, I think. 

DOM was a micros**t invention (and how it shows!). NT was UCS-2
(effectively).

AFAIK Unicode was originally only planned to be a 16-bit encoding.
the The Unicode Consortium and ISO 10646 then agreed to synchronize the
two standards - though originally Unicode was only going to be a 16-bit subset of the UCS. A little after that Unicode decided to support UCS characters beyond plane 0.

Anyway at the time NT was being designed (late eighties) Unicode was supposed to be limited to < 65536 characers and UTF-8 hadn't been thought of, so 16-bits probably seemed like a good idea.



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