From: David Starner (prosfilaes@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Jul 07 2008 - 17:22:44 CDT
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 5:19 PM, William J Poser <wjposer@ldc.upenn.edu> wrote:
> With UTF-16, however,
> if you know that there are no characters outside the BMP, every
> character is a constant two bytes wide.
I think that's a bad idea; if you're accepting user input, you should
always assume they may want to use characters outside the BMP. Part of
the value of Unicode is not having to wonder if a program will accept
the script you want to write in.
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