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• Subject: Re: ANN: Gorille 0.3
• From: "Rick Jelliffe" <ricko@a...>
• Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 18:40:37 +1100
• References: <200201110646.g0B6kMf09768@l...>

> > Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
> > 
> > > It could be worse, though. You could be using C, and trying to decode 
> > > UTF-8. :-)
> > 
> > ?? It's about 10 lines of code, and has been written lots of
> > times now.   

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). 

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

Cheers
Rick Jelliffe

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