Re: Patch: Promoting characters to 31 bits (for discussion)
On Thu, 01 Jul 1999 11:15:53 +0900, you said:
Yes. UCS-4 is going to be the standard unified character type in
the
near future. It can handle all foreseeable needs for plain text.
John Von Neuman once said "4K of memory should satisfy all forseeable
computational requirements".
A lot of programmers are busy fixing code that assumed that 2 bytes could
signify all forseeable date fields.
What happens to UCS-4 if http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu actually
finds something? ;)
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Valdis Kletnieks
Computer Systems Senior Engineer
Virginia Tech
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