[Haskell-cafe] UTF-16

Colin Paul Adams colin at colina.demon.co.uk
Thu Jul 26 00:15:29 EDT 2007


>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Coppin <andrewcoppin at btinternet.com> writes:

    Andrew> I believe somebody out there has a UTF-8 decoder, but I
    Andrew> needed UTF-16 as it happens. (I didn't bother decoding
    Andrew> code points outside the BMP - I'm sure you can figure out
    Andrew> why.)

Well I can't.

And if you don't, then its not a UTF-16 decoder.

The whole point of UTF-16 is to blight everybodies lives by
introducing a gap in the codepoint space.
-- 
Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire


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