From: John B. Turpish On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 4:42 AM, Matus Chochlik <chochlik@gmail.com> wrote:
b) UTF-32 is basically a waste of memory for most localizations.
I'm not an expert, so take this with a grain of salt. But couldn't it just as easily be said that UTF-8 is a waste of CPU? There are a number of operations that are constant time if you can assume a fixed size for a character that I would think would have to be linear for UTF-8, for example accessing the Nth character.
IIUC you can't assume a fixed size for a character even with UTF-32. In UTF-32 only _codepoints_ have fixed size, yet one character may be composed of several codepoints, e.g. a latin letter followed by a diacritical mark, making up one character (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combining_character). Best regards, Robert