From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.lisp.gcl.devel Subject: Re: utf8 and emacs text/string multibyte representation Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 22:00:48 +0100 Message-ID: <8761f0lzsv.fsf@igel.home> References: <87wq7jxc7d.fsf@gnu.org> <87zjcfx985.fsf_-_@maguirefamily.org> <877fzhwsls.fsf@maguirefamily.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1414789292 23379 80.91.229.3 (31 Oct 2014 21:01:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 21:01:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: gcl-devel@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Sam Steingold Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 31 22:01:25 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XkJK0-0001zO-OK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 22:01:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43824 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XkJK0-0006CJ-3F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 17:01:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44943) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XkJJa-00062k-2j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 17:01:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XkJJU-0005tZ-Hk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 17:00:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([2001:a60:0:28:0:1:25:1]:35052) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XkJJU-0005sr-At for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 17:00:52 -0400 Original-Received: from frontend01.mail.m-online.net (unknown [192.168.8.182]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3jTwsZ1y0hz3hjMJ; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 22:00:50 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (dynscan1.mnet-online.de [192.168.6.68]) by mail.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3jTwsZ1LTWzvh4P; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 22:00:50 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mnet-online.de Original-Received: from mail.mnet-online.de ([192.168.8.182]) by localhost (dynscan1.mail.m-online.net [192.168.6.68]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 19IXfGAFTmaQ; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 22:00:49 +0100 (CET) X-Auth-Info: mw4IGIKVvOor6LsdJCWUN+5m6sIhGgs3PqjIXkKXOvNy8iVxsslk+ruqT06jD/Ou Original-Received: from igel.home (ppp-188-174-153-236.dynamic.mnet-online.de [188.174.153.236]) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTPA; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 22:00:49 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by igel.home (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 018002C375A; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 22:00:48 +0100 (CET) X-Yow: I'm having BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS about the INSIPID WIVES of smug and wealthy CORPORATE LAWYERS.. In-Reply-To: (Sam Steingold's message of "Fri, 31 Oct 2014 14:47:17 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 2001:a60:0:28:0:1:25:1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:176172 gmane.lisp.gcl.devel:8804 Archived-At: Sam Steingold writes: >> * Camm Maguire [2014-10-30 10:16:15 -0400]: >> >> Do these other lisps allocate a fresh character on each aref? > > Of course not! > A character is an immediate object, a word. > Even a 32-bit system has words big enough to store all Unicode. Or rather enough bits to store all unicode values plus tags bits. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."