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Subject: Re: SoC 2009: BSD-licensed libiconv in base system
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On Mon, Apr 27, 2009, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 03:49:04PM -0400, David Schultz wrote:
> > ...but isn't this moot at present because there are no
> > widely-accepted encodings that include characters that
> > aren't supported by UCS-4? Citrus doesn't seem to support
> > any such encodings in any case.
> 
> "Just" using UCS-4 not necessarily buys you the desired affect.
> Keep in mind that UCS-4 is still a variable width encoding, as soon as
> you factor combining characters and some other interesting parts in.

This is true, but unfortunately C99 wasn't really designed to
support combining characters. I don't understand how this relates
to the present discussion.