Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: UTF-8 practically vs. theoretically in the VFS API (was: Re: JFS default behavior) | Date | Wed, 18 Feb 2004 03:11:32 +0000 (UTC) |
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Followup to: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0402171251130.2154@home.osdl.org> By author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > UCS-4 is as braindamaged as UCS-2 was, and for all the same reasons. > > It's bloated, non-expandable, and not backwards compatible. >
UCS-4 is actually a very nice format for *internal processing*. For data interchange, it sucks eggs.
UCS-2 is historic. It's successor, UTF-16, is one of the worst horrors ever inflicted on mankind by Microsoft.
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