Re: Characters lost when saving UTF-8 file on win32 (21.5.16)

Hrvoje> Note that 1GB is the current limit. With the swap you Hrvoje> propose, the limit becomes 512M. For me the difference is Hrvoje> palpable, and will become more so in the coming years. In that case, we should crank up the pain now, so that you'll have strong incentive to optimize those bignums! 0.5 * :-) Of course unless something _really_ bizarre happens, there will be satisfactory 30-bit solutions to any Unicode issues. So you can surely keep your bit. But 1GB text files are not unheard of any more, and 1GB tarfiles are commonplace, I have a couple of those myself (gzipped to less than 1GB, but uncompressed about 2.5GB). In late-breaking news, GNU Emacs now has 29-bit integers. It's a horserace, guys! -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.