[Python-Dev] Internal representation of strings and Micropython (original) (raw)

Serhiy Storchaka storchaka at gmail.com
Thu Jun 5 10:08:21 CEST 2014

05.06.14 05:25, Terry Reedy написав(ла):

I mentioned it as an alternative during the '393 discussion. I more than half agree that the FSR is the better choice for CPython, which had no particular attachment to UTF-16 in the way that I think Jython, for instance, does.

Yes, I remember. I thing that hybrid FSR-UTF16 (like FSR, but UTF-16 is used instead of UCS4) is the better choice for CPython. I suppose that with populating emoticons and other icon characters in nearest 5 or 10 years, even English text will often contain astral characters. And spending 4 bytes per character if long text contains one astral character looks too prodigally.

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