Re: Byte Addressability And Beyond

David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> writes:

UTF-32 is fine for internal use, however - using whatever endianness
your processor prefers.  The trick is never to let it leave the one
computer in any encoding other than UTF-8.

An unnecessary complication.

1) I only came up with the following use cases where you need to deal
with individual non-ASCII characters: Palindrome checkers and anagram
programs; I remember somebody mentioning a third use (which I promptly
forgot), but anyway, there are few cases.

2) But even for those few cases, UTF-32 is not good enough, because a
code point is not a character.

- anton
--
'Anyone trying for "industrial quality" ISA should avoid undefined behavior.'
  Mitch Alsup, <c17fcd89-f024-40e7-a594-88a85ac10d20o@googlegroups.com>