Questions about Unicode, particularly Japanese

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Ruslan Nikolaev" <nruslan_devel at yahoo.com> wrote in message 
news:mailman.138.1276028343.24349.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
> Sorry, if it's again top post in your mail clients. I'll try to figure out 
> what's going on later today.
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>> 1. Am I correct in all of that?
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> Yes. That's the reason I was saying that UTF-16 is *NOT* a lousy encoding. 
> It really depends on a situation. The advantage is not only space but also 
> faster processing speed (even for 2 byte letters: Greek, Cyrillic, etc.) 
> since those 2 bytes can be read at one memory access as opposed to UTF-8. 
> Also, consider another thing: it's easier (and cheaper) to convert from 
> ANSI to UTF-16 since a direct table can be created. Whereas for UTF-8, 
> you'll have to do some shifts to create a surrogate for non-ASCII letters 
> (even for Latin ones).
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Yea, I need to remember not to try to post late at night ;)