Re: could perl ever use utf-16 internally?
[email protected] (Juerd Waalboer) Wed, 31 Oct 2007 23:34:57 +0100
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E R skribis 2007-10-31 17:29 (-0500): > I'm been thinking about this hypothetical question lately: could perl > ever switch its 'other' internal representation of strings from utf-8 > to utf-16? It could (if people didn't rely on the internal encoding so much), but should it? > Anyone have any thoughts on this? I think the benefits aren't that big. UTF-16 is variable width, like UTF-8, and typically uses a lot more memory. -- Met vriendelijke groet, Kind regards, Korajn salutojn, Juerd Waalboer: Perl hacker <#####@juerd.nl> <http://juerd.nl/sig> Convolution: ICT solutions and consultancy <[email protected]>