* juuichiketajin@ranmamail.com
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| Why not store codepoint numbers as bignums?
You can. If you use the UTF-32/UCS-4 encoding of Unicode you use four
bytes per character, which is effectively what you're suggesting.
The UTF-16, UTF-8, and UTF-7 encodings behave differently, but the
option of using a fixed-length encoding is there.
--Lars M.
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