The future of Emacs, Guile, and Emacs Lisp

Posted Oct 12, 2014 6:12 UTC (Sun) by k8to (guest, #15413)
In reply to: The future of Emacs, Guile, and Emacs Lisp by lambda
Parent article: The future of Emacs, Guile, and Emacs Lisp

This view dates back to a time when UCS-2 was fixed size (whatever its name was then) or then when the predecessor for UTF32 was fixed size. As you point out, both of those eras passed.

It's a little more tedious to CUT a UTF8 string safely based on a size computed in bytes than in some other encodings, but not much more, and that's very rarely a fast path.