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I'm not sure that I do, either. Nevertheless, people at the Unicode consortium have been working on that for... 20 years now? What technical obstacle that currently blocks their progress do you foresee disappearing in the future? Occam says that variable width characters are simply a better match for the problem domain, even when character width in bits is not a problem. You lost me with the last line. I'm thinking you're talking about Occam's razor which says that we should prefer simpler explanations for
On 01/19/2011 09:52 AM, Peter Dimov wrote: things except when a more complicate explanation does a better job of explaining the facts. I'm completely lost about how that would apply to choosing a variable width encoding over a fixed width encoding. Patrick