Re: Byte Addressability And Beyond

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

People often think it is easier to do string manipulation - joining,
splitting, replacing, etc., - when you have fixed size units per
character.

But they are wrong.  Fixed-size units per character are unnecessary
and not helpful for joining, splitting, and replacing.  And for nearly
all of "etc.".

But it is not
uncommon to think it is, and if you can make some simplifications to the
text you support (specifically, limiting your code to single code point
characters) then UTF-32 can be helpful.

Yes, many people think so, but they are mistaken.

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