Re: [Kind of OT] Why's this look like gibberish to me?
Hi,
On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 03:57:19PM +0200, s. keeling wrote:
> Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@gmail.com>:
> >
> > Why are you against switching to UTF-8? Disk space? There really is
> > no other disadvantage, and even the diskspace arguement doesn't
> > count for much unless your drive is mostly uncompressed text files.
>
> Why would I be _for_ switching? I'm a unilingual Anglophile. utf-8
> would gain me nothing. I'm glad utf-8 (et al) finally exists for
> those of you who who can use it or need it. However, it's irrelevant
> here. I only know English, and can puzzle out some words in other
> related western European languages.
>
> I'd guess my $HOME probably is mostly uncompressed text, source and
> documentation.
If you use only ASCII characters in UTF-8 encoded text file, it is
exactly same as ASCII file in size and contents.
Only when you have those alian characters, UTF-8 makes special multi
byte sequence.
If you are talking alian character support bloating data size, it is not
UTF-8 encoded data. The fixed width encoding system UCS-4 etc. used to
represent data in program tends to bload memory consumption of
application. This memory consumption happens even if you use "C"
environment.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Character_Set
http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/getwiki/html/ch09.en.html#thelocale
Osamu
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