Re: [Squeak-VMdev] Versiojn 4 changes

[Ned K. <ne...@bi...>]

On Tuesday 06 April 2004 2:50 pm, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote:
> > * Wide characters (Unicode is defined as 21 bit; but Yoshiki really needs
> > 24)
>  I'd like to have 30 bit for a char.

What's the advantage of doing that? What can't you represent in 24 bits?

I'm assuming that you can put most of the extra meta-info into Strings. To 
uniquely index glyphs, wouldn't 24 bits be enough (possibly with some 
information from the String that holds the characters)?

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