Re: UTF-8 practically vs. theoretically in the VFS API (was: Re:JFS default behavior)

[H. Peter Anvin]

Followup to:  <Pine.LNX.4.58.0402171251130.2154@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
By author:    Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> UCS-4 is as braindamaged as UCS-2 was, and for all the same reasons.
> 
> It's bloated, non-expandable, and not backwards compatible.
> 

UCS-4 is actually a very nice format for *internal processing*.  For
data interchange, it sucks eggs.

UCS-2 is historic.  It's successor, UTF-16, is one of the worst
horrors ever inflicted on mankind by Microsoft.

	-hpa
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