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

[Dirk Muysers]

So let them hate it. Memory is not a problem anymore.

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From: "Hendrik Boom" <hendrik at topoi.pooq.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2012 8:19 PM
To: <m3devel at elegosoft.com>
Subject: Re: [M3devel]AND (…, 16_ff)… Not serious - or so I hope!

> 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
>