Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: How does arch/tla handle encodings?

[Aaron Bentley]

Marcus Sundman wrote:
> Yes, and for strings with those UTF-16 is as bad as UTF-8 when it comes to 
> random access.

That means that a general system which wants random access to codepoints 
must use UTF-32.  Anything else is half-measures or worse.

However, if you consider à to be a character, even when it's represented 
as U+0061 followed by U+0300, then there's no such thing as random 
access to characters in Unicode.  You can't change U+0061 and U+0300 
into U+0062 without altering the number of codepoints in the string.

Aaron