Naive HAMMER question

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Tue Jan 15 09:54:09 PST 2008


On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 06:23:56PM +0100, Erik Wikstr?m wrote:
> As I understand things UTF-16 is quite commonly used for internal
> representation of strings, however it might depend on what platform one
> is using.

It isn't. Those platforms that do use it (prime example is Windows)
mostly use it for compatibility reasons. When Microsoft started Unicode
support, Unicode 2.0 was the active version and only the BMP existed at
that time. Most other platforms use 32bit wchar internally.

Joerg





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