From: Michael Marcin (mmarcin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-09-26 21:10:25
James Porter wrote:
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> On a different note, does anyone see a practical use in having (mutable)
> strings with variable-width character encodings? I can't think of any
> practical use for them that wouldn't be equally well-served with an
> array of bytes (like the email MIME-type example).
>
What encoding would you propose we use that is not variable length?
UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32 certainly are all variable length encodings.
- Michael Marcin