From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Beginnings of conpat 32 code cleanups
Date: 22 Nov 2002 12:38:55 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <arm4kv$bsl$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20021122131351.C30808@duath.fsmlabs.com
Followup to: <20021122131351.C30808@duath.fsmlabs.com>
By author: Cort Dougan <cort@fsmlabs.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Plan9 takes it a step further and tackles the char/8-byte issue. A
> printable character is a 16-byte entity - a rune - while char is an 8-byte
> quantity. Doing everything in UNICODE forced the issue, I think.
>
... at which point it promptly fell apart as 16-bit Unicode was very
quickly found to be insufficient (not really surprising since the
16-bit decision was based on technical convenience rather than actual
requirements.)
-hpa
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-22 20:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-22 5:23 [PATCH] Beginnings of conpat 32 code cleanups Stephen Rothwell
2002-11-22 19:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-11-22 19:54 ` Larry McVoy
2002-11-22 20:13 ` Cort Dougan
2002-11-22 20:38 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2002-11-23 0:28 ` Stephen Rothwell
2002-11-25 19:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-11-23 5:16 ` Anton Blanchard
2002-11-25 20:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-11-26 13:53 ` Pavel Machek
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