Re: UTF-16 min/max_ bytes_per_char must be 2

[Hoehle, Joerg-C. <Joe...@t-...>]

Samm Steingold wrote:
>my position holds:
>ENCODING-ZEROES must be implemented in C and use & update
>min/max_bytes_per_char.
This sounds reasonable.

There's another issue.
The FFI will likely have to document that (C-ARRAY CHARACTER N) is measured in bytes, which can cause some surprises to people manipulating only e.g. UTF-16. It's rather different from (C-ARRAY UINT16 N) and may cause surprises!

Yet I find it reasonable to have it set at a known size and not dependent on the current encoding. That would be worrying.

Regards,
	Jorg Hohle.