<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">This is one place where insisting on some imagined/future purity (fully compatible withyour argument - thread safety + immutability + non-quadratic performance) will lead to unreasonable fragmentation and de-facto gray area in CM3 and it's usage.<div><br></div><div>I am only one of people here who de-facto uses TEXT's to hold UTF8 content. And while we all think/talk about solution, every single user who needs international characters and wants to use them in sensible way - will go same way.</div><div><br></div><div>Then, some "proper" CM3 solution comes and what happens? We rewrite everything to support it? Or ignore it?</div><div><br></div><div><div><div>On Jun 27, 2012, at 1:14 PM, Dragiša Durić wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><base href="x-msg://1826/"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jun 27, 2012, at 12:19 PM, Jay K wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><div dir="ltr"> > More and more is obvious how ideal structure would be: ARRAY OF CHAR, UTF8 encoded, using SRC M3 Text.Hash().<br><br>I don't quite agree.<br>There are two ideal approaches.<br>1)<br> TEXT is like ARRAY OF CHAR and no values over 0xFF (or maybe even 0x7F)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div></div></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><div dir="ltr"> "WiDETEXT" is like ARRAY OF WIDECHAR, for 16bit or 32bit WIDECHAR<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></div></div></span></blockquote><div><br></div>So we can have two representations for single thing: variable holding some text. And representation depends on a question "do you need non-basic-english-characters"?</div><div><br></div><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>