[Haskell-cafe] Re: PROPOSAL: New efficient Unicode string library.

[Aaron Denney]

On 2007-09-26, Tony Finch <dot at dotat.at> wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Aaron Denney wrote:
>>
>> It's true that time-wise there are definite issues in finding character
>> boundaries.
>
> UTF-16 has no advantage over UTF-8 in this respect, because of surrogate
> pairs and combining characters.

Good point.

-- 
Aaron Denney
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