Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names

From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Jan 21, 2008, 21:09 UTC
Message-ID: <8563xm6g38.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
In-Reply-To: <46a038f90801211306g3dd9a167wb74d06e444b18b93@mail.gmail.com>

"Martin Langhoff" <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> writes:

> (slightly offtopic) are you praising UTF-8 as storage format (for disk
> and network) or in general? UTF-8-aware string ops like counting
> characters seem to me a horrendous thing at the ASM level.

Huh? Why? Just count all characters in the range 00-bf. That's the exact character count of utf-8 characters.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

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