Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 05:37:32PM -0400, Joe wrote:
>
>>If it stored character data in Unicode (UCS-16) it would always take
>>up two-bytes per character.
>
> Really? We don't support UCS-16, for good reasons (we'd have to rewrite
> several parts of the code in order to support '0' bytes embedded in
> strings ... we use regular C strings extensively).
I'm sorry. I meant to say UCS-2, which by definition uses 16 bits = 2 octets =
2 bytes. To support an even larger code space, you could use UCS-4 which always
uses 4 bytes.
Joe