From: William J Poser (wjposer@ldc.upenn.edu)
Date: Mon Jul 07 2008 - 19:03:15 CDT
>This isn't as much of an advantage as it sounds, since in most Unicode
>processes you need to be prepared to deal with multiple characters at
>once anyway.
I don't get the point. Whether you're dealing with one character or
many, life is simpler if they're all the same size.
>That's the problem. You really can't make the assumption that you're
>dealing with BMP-only text.
For general user input, no. And I never make that assumption.
But for some purposes, yes, you can assume that input is BMP-only.
Not all input comes direct from the user.
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