[Cuis-dev] UTF-8 Unicode editors

[Juan Vuletich]

But we have a VM that shields us from platform peculiarities. Maybe some 
specific app needs UTF-16, but if Cuis switches source code file format, 
it will be from ASCII/ISO8859-15 to UTF-8.

On 5/1/2022 1:44 PM, Andres Valloud via Cuis-dev wrote:
> Windows uses UTF-16.
>
> On 4/30/22 5:31 AM, Philip Bernhart via Cuis-dev wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Luciano Notarfrancesco via Cuis-dev <cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st> writes:
>>
>>> This is super cool. I’d like to have unicode symbols at some point, not
>>> sure if we’ll need WideStrings in UTF-32, or how big will be the 
>>> impact in
>>> memory use if we make all strings wide (not only memory use, but also
>>> speed, because we have primitives for String). Anyway we’ll see once we
>>> start experimenting. Thank you for doing this!
>>
>> I don't see why Cuis should support anything besides bytes, UTF-8
>> and the conversion from and to UTF-8 to any other of the broken
>> character encodings in the world.
>>
>> Participants of this thread should check against the great utf-8
>> everywhere site: https://utf8everywhere.org/#myths
>>
>> Juan did when pondering about Cuis string support.
>>
>>
>> My rambling 0.2 EUR,
>> Philip


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