Re: architectural goals, Byte Addressability And Beyond

According to Anton Ertl <anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at>:

Bottom line: Code point conversion instructions like CU14 solve a
problem that people imagine who have no experience working with UTF-8.

The original instructions were CU12 and CU21 which convert between
UTF-8 and UTF-16. That really is useful, e.g., read a file of UTF-8
into a program in Java or Javascript which uses UTF-16. I agree the
UTF-32 versions added in zseries are less likely to be useful.

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