"Martin Langhoff" <martin.langhoff@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > (slightly offtopic) are you praising UTF-8 as storage format (for disk > and network) or in general? UTF-8-aware string ops like counting > characters seem to me a horrendous thing at the ASM level. Huh? Why? Just count all characters in the range 00-bf. That's the exact character count of utf-8 characters. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html