Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com> wrote:

> Another problem is that handling Unicode is *slow*.  At a minimum,
> you have to do twice the work per glyph of input or output, and it
> is difficult to avoid doing a large part of that extra work even for
> traditional 8-bit character sets when you have built your C library
> etc. to support Unicode.

Uhmm, and how is that different from supporting EUC or Shift-JIS?

SY, Uwe
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