> at Thu, 2001-06-21 11:16:20 -0700 Markus Scherer <markus.scherer@jtcsv.com>
> Abolish all in-process Unicode encodings except UTF-16.
> If everyone uses the same encoding form then there is no problem
> with different string lengths, results of binary comparisons, etc.
>
> Once we are here, abolish all little-endian UTF-16 implementations.
> This will save a lot of byte swapping, and binary comparisons can
> always be performed with memcmp().
>
> Heck, abolish all little-endian platforms and all platforms with
> integer widths other than 8, 16, 32, etc.
Yes, but forget 8, 16 and 32; go with only 64 and 128. Those tiny
little 32-bit words are another relic of Ill-Begotten Monstrosities.
Expand the Unicode code-space to make full use of those 16 octets
for each code-point (composition, swampization) and then use unified
fonts. And all the little 1 bits and all the little 0 bits can play
together all across the address space. I have a DREAM.
John G. Otto Nisus Software, Engineering
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