Our bloat problem

Our bloat problem

Posted Aug 4, 2005 13:44 UTC (Thu) by tialaramex (subscriber, #21167)
In reply to: Our bloat problem by elanthis
Parent article: Our bloat problem

You don't need 4 bytes per character for Unicode in most places. A brief examination of the unicode xterm shows that, as expected it doesn't actually store everything as 32-bit ultra-wide characters. Most strings can be stored as UTF-8, a few places might deal with the actual code point and have a 32-bit integer temporarily, but certainly not huge strings of them.

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