Re: g_malloc overhead

[Martín Vales <martin opengeomap org>]

Paul LeoNerd Evans escribió:
> On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 17:43:57 +0100
> Martín Vales <martin opengeomap org> wrote:
>
>   
> > Other overhead i see is the open dir/file funtions, where in windows we 
> > need do the utf8 to utf16 everytime in windows. If JAVA,.NET and Qt use 
> > utf16 by default why in gnome world we use utf8 by default?.
> >     
>
> Probably one of the biggest reasons, is that UTF-8 does not use \0
> octets, whereas UTF-16 does. This means that UTF-8 data can transparently
> pass through all of the usual str*() functions in C, such as strlen(),
> strcpy(), etc...
>
>   
I can see the advantages of use utf8 but the true it´s most of people 
use utf16. I know gnome/linux/cairo/freedesktop promote utf8 but most 
people use utf16:
http://unicode.org/notes/tn12/#Software_16


Regards.