xml-dev - Re: Request for Discussion: SAX 1.0 in C++

[Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no>]

>>>>> John Aldridge <john.aldridge@informatix.co.uk>:

> Why?  What's wrong with storing UTF-16 encoded data in a 32 bit
> wchar_t?  I know it uses more storage space; but there won't
> typically be that much data around in this format at once.

We store a lot of strings, so I think a quadrupling of the storage
space compared with what we do today, or doubling wrt. to UTF-16, will
be significant.

Another thing is that if we actually have 32 bit available, I would
have liked to use UCS-4, rather than UTF-16... using UCS-4 would fit
better with the 

(But of course to do that, I would need to have platform specific code
depending on sizeof(wchar_t)...:-/)

> I'd much rather have the format defined to be wstring (or wchar_t*, if you
> must, but that's another debate), because of the compatibility with wide
> string literals.

Hm... I don't know anything about wide string literals and their
behaviour wrt. to wstring, text editors and debuggers.  Could you
elaborate, maybe...?

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