From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 19 01:32:03 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id BAA17635 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 19 Sep 1995 01:32:03 -0700 Received: from hutcs.cs.hut.fi (root@hutcs.cs.hut.fi [130.233.192.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id BAA17626 for ; Tue, 19 Sep 1995 01:31:52 -0700 Received: from shadows.cs.hut.fi by hutcs.cs.hut.fi with SMTP id AA09974 (5.65c8/HUTCS-S 1.4 for ); Tue, 19 Sep 1995 11:31:37 +0300 Received: (hsu@localhost) by shadows.cs.hut.fi (8.6.10/8.6.10) id LAA20037; Tue, 19 Sep 1995 11:31:42 +0300 Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 11:31:42 +0300 Message-Id: <199509190831.LAA20037@shadows.cs.hut.fi> From: Heikki Suonsivu To: Bakul Shah Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: Bakul Shah's message of 18 Sep 1995 20:38:32 +0300 Subject: Re: Policy on printf format specifiers? Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Otaniemi, Finland Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I too think 16 bit is good enough. 10646 is a 32 bit standard but given that other than Unicode no other pages are populated and that Unicode supports all living and many (most?) dead languages and that except for scholars of dead languages (a tiny tiny percentage of people) no one else will benefit *even if* pages beyond Unicode are ever used, allowing for such extension now is IMHO a waste of space. rune_t can be made 16 bit, too. Yes, and I also think that 640kbytes of memory is certainly enough for anything you would want to do with your computer. -- Heikki Suonsivu, T{ysikuu 10 C 83/02210 Espoo/FINLAND, hsu@cs.hut.fi home +358-0-8031121 work -4513377 fax -4555276 riippu SN