Code points & code units [was Re: customized "new" and pointer alignment]

[Julio César Carrascal Urquijo]

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> Code _unit_.  I thought it was something like that.  I think the people who 
> come up with Unicode have a little too much time on their hands. 

Not all of them. UTF-8 was designed in one night and it is still better 
than UTF-16:

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/utf-8-history.txt