[M3devel] AND (…, 16_ff)… Not serious - or so I hope!

[Hendrik Boom]

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 12:18:41PM +0200, Dragiša Durić wrote:
> This piece of code, from TextClass.m3, disturbs me… a lot.
> 
> If we are to use WIDECHAR, I think we must be a lot more serious than this.
> 
> Probably, text pieces are limited to 128 bytes by design, somewhere. But - whose idea was to "narrow" by ignoring everything except 8 LSB's? By mapping set of 2^20 elements to set of 2^8 elements.
> 
> Probably by someone whose mother tongue is fully writeable with ASCII :).

I'm told the Japanese hate UTF-8, because it expands  their characters 
from two bytes to three.

-- hendrik