• To: Rick Jelliffe <ricko@a...>
• Subject: Re: ANN: Gorille 0.3
• From: John Cowan <cowan@m...>
• Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 06:05:11 -0500 (EST)
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <000f01c19a73$42ef4c60$4bc8a8c0@A...> from Rick Jelliffeat "Jan 11, 2002 06:40:37 pm"

Rick Jelliffe scripsit:

> But if your UTF-8 file is a big string, it slows you down for random access:
> don't you have to count from the closest known point (unworkable) or maintain 
> some kind of chop points (e.g. a list of line deltas). 

You can back up very easily just a byte or three and get yourself
re-registered.

> At least in UTF-8 you can just count bytes <0x80 to count characters.

Make that 0xC0.

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