Re: [boost] [General] Always treat std::strings as UTF-8

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.