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... -- Paul "LeoNerd" Evans leonerd leonerd org uk ICQ# 4135350 | Registered Linux# 179460 http://www.leonerd.org.uk/
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