Python usage numbers
Roy Smith
roy at panix.com
Sun Feb 12 18:41:21 EST 2012
In article <4f384b6e$0$29986$c3e8da3$5496439d at news.astraweb.com>,
Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
> > I could hope for one and only one, but I know I'm just going to be
> > disapointed. The last project I worked on used UTF-8 in most places,
> > but also used some C and Java libraries which were only available for
> > UTF-16. So it was transcoding hell all over the place.
>
> Um, surely the solution to that is to always call a simple wrapper
> function to the UTF-16 code to handle the transcoding? What do the Design
> Patterns people call it, a facade? No, an adapter. (I never remember the
> names...)
I am familiar with the concept. It was ICU. A very big library. Lots
of calls. I don't remember the details, I'm sure we wrote wrappers. It
was still a mess.
> > Hopefully, we will eventually reach the point where storage is so cheap
> > that nobody minds how inefficient UTF-32 is and we all just start using
> > that. Life will be a lot simpler then. No more transcoding, a string
> > will just as many bytes as it is characters, and everybody will be happy
> > again.
>
> I think you mean 4 times as many bytes as characters. Unless you have 32
> bit bytes :)
Yes, exactly.
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