From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-04-23 19:22:33
At 02:51 PM 4/23/2003, David Abrahams wrote:
>"Edward Diener" <eddielee_at_[hidden]> writes:
>
>> I still feel that a fixed width Unicode encoding has to be an advance
>over
>> variable width encodings like MBCS for any character set.
>
>I guess that depends on how important random access over the
>characters of a string is to you. To me, it seems like an edge case.
It really doesn't matter what we think - both fixed-width and
variable-width encodings are well established, and not going to go away
anytime soon. So a filesystem library is going to have to cope with both
fixed and variable width external encodings of filenames.
--Beman