V4RB2 // storing encoding

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 10/22/04 11:12 PM, "erne" <ernestogiannotta at tiscalinet.it> wrote:

>> But this is not related in any case to IO encoding,
>> You can give to V4RB string in UTF8 or UTF16 and Valentina do next
>> 
>>     INSIDE of KERNEL it will convert it to UTF16.
>> 
>>     ALWAYS.
>>     ALWAYS
>>     ALWAYS.
>> 
>> Because inside of kernel all Valentina algorithms use UTF16.
>> 
>> When Valentina ed tore something to disk it convert from UTF16 to
>> StorageEncoding. When it read from disk then back to UTF16.
>> 
>> 
>> You see?
>> 
>> 
>>     REALBasic  <------->   engine  <--------> disk
>>                    IO               Storage
>> 
> 
> yep! I can understand this
> btw have you figures of what the overhead of this conversion?
> i.e. will we gain significant advantage in using UTF16 for storage?

I have told that Roman group (Italian also)
Should prefer UTF8 or native encoding.

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Ruslan Zasukhin      [ I feel the need...the need for speed ]
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