From: "Joel Salomon" <joelcsalomon@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] strangely typed functions in standard library
Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 08:43:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7871fcf50605190543g36e65966r90f938c9e8b1478d@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <775b8d190605180221l79cf7214m7116dfe7567af85d@mail.gmail.com>
On 5/18/06, Bruce Ellis <bruce.ellis@gmail.com> wrote:
> 32 bit unicode is not Rune friendly
The "other" standard, ISO 10646, has promised that 21 bits will always
be sufficient to represent characters.
Making Rune a 32 bit type allows all characters to be represented and
leaves room for out-of-band information; for example, the end of a
utf8 text stream (EOF) can be (Rune32)-1, with no need for a wider
type.
--Joel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-19 12:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-18 3:06 erik quanstrom
2006-05-18 9:21 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-05-19 4:43 ` quanstro
2006-05-19 5:03 ` geoff
2006-05-19 12:43 ` Joel Salomon [this message]
2006-05-19 13:03 ` Victor Nazarov
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2006-05-16 3:03 Matt Stewart
2006-05-16 11:40 ` Martin Neubauer
2006-05-16 15:09 ` R
2006-05-19 22:49 ` Lluís Batlle i Rossell
2006-05-19 22:43 ` quanstro
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