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0 pointsest13y ago0 comments

For fuck's sake I am not defending UTF16's simplicity, I am defending that:

fixed width can count code points (I worded it as "character") faster than variable-length

Then his dietrichepp tries to educate me two code points combined should be treated equaly with another single code point, WTF y u no normalization?

Downvote me as you like, but you can't change the fact that UCS4 is used internally in Unicode systems.

Any reason other than for faster code point counting?

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dietrichepp also offended me that unicode characters should not count or offset. QTF:

> Why do you want to count Unicode characters? Why do you care if it is fast to do so? Why would you ever need to use character-based string indexing?

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Dylan1680713y ago

What in the world is your goal in this conversation? In your impotent rage you've only established that it's useless to count code points, completely counter to your original point in favor of UCS-2.

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