From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sam Steingold Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.gcl.devel,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: utf8 and emacs text/string multibyte representation Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 14:47:17 -0400 Organization: disorganization Message-ID: References: <87wq7jxc7d.fsf@gnu.org> <87zjcfx985.fsf_-_@maguirefamily.org> <877fzhwsls.fsf@maguirefamily.org> Reply-To: sds@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1414785700 30419 80.91.229.3 (31 Oct 2014 20:01:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 20:01:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: gcl-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: gcl-devel-bounces+gnu-gcl-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 31 21:01:36 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gnu-gcl-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 1XkIO7-0000Ne-0O for gnu-gcl-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 21:01:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42335 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XkIO6-0007nv-KS for gnu-gcl-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 16:01:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45566) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XkHEZ-0001LY-2u for gcl-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 14:47:43 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XkHEU-0004QK-FZ for gcl-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 14:47:39 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:58706) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XkHEU-0004Pw-9l for gcl-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 14:47:34 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XkHES-0008Cw-7n for gcl-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 19:47:32 +0100 Original-Received: from 66.9.135.66 ([66.9.135.66]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 19:47:32 +0100 Original-Received: from sds by 66.9.135.66 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 19:47:32 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.9.135.66 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (darwin) X-Attribution: Sam X-Disclaimer: You should not expect anyone to agree with me. Cancel-Lock: sha1:wAfzXyAOIpyMjkjx+5r0bFmiT14= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: gcl-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: gcl-devel-bounces+gnu-gcl-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: gcl-devel-bounces+gnu-gcl-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.gcl.devel:8802 gmane.emacs.devel:176151 Archived-At: > * 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. -- Sam Steingold (http://sds.podval.org/) on darwin Ns 10.3.1343 http://www.childpsy.net/ http://www.dhimmitude.org http://honestreporting.com http://www.memritv.org http://memri.org http://camera.org http://jihadwatch.org It's not just a language, it's an adventure. Common Lisp.