[Ecls-list] Unicode 16-bits

[Raymond Toy]

On 2/22/11 3:14 AM, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll wrote:
>
> I am not going to move ECL from its current single-word (16 or 32 bit)
> encoding right now. It would be too much of a hassle. I am just
> offering the possibility of having a compromise for devices and
> platforms that do not care much about the full character set -- OS X
> or Windows, they only support 16-bit characters in their libraries AFAIK.
>
I believe they use utf-16, so it's not really "just" a 16-bit character.

I think the best answer to your question would be to ask who actually
needs to access characters outside the basic multilingual plane of 16
bits.   If there are none, then 16 bits is fine.  If there are some,
then you can decide whether you want to make strings utf-16 or not, or
whether they can live with the 32-bit character type.

Ray