[M3devel] This disgusting TEXT business

[hendrik at topoi.pooq.com]

On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 11:33:18AM +0100, Dragiša Durić wrote:
> Most important argument for UTF-8 - IMO - would be it's completeness.
> 2byte WIDECHAR is not complete. Period. Be it mahhjong tile or some
> obscure Chinese glyph - 16 bytes is not enough. Would we do some 20bit
> storage magic instead?

Well, 20 bits would certianly fit inside 16 bytes, :-)

-- hendrik