Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Byte Addressability And Beyond
Date: Sun, 12 May 2024 11:39:14 +0300
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Lines: 16
Message-ID: <20240512113914.000043b3@yahoo.com>
References: <v0s17o$2okf4$2@dont-email.me>
	<4e0557bec2acda4df76f1ed01ebcbdf6@www.novabbs.org>
	<v1ep4i$1ptf$1@gal.iecc.com>
	<v1eruj$3o1r8$1@dont-email.me>
	<v1h8l6$1ttd$1@gal.iecc.com>
	<v1kifk$17qh0$1@dont-email.me>
	<2024May10.182047@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at>
	<v1ns43$2260p$1@dont-email.me>
	<2024May11.173149@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at>
	<v1preb$2jn47$1@dont-email.me>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Injection-Date: Sun, 12 May 2024 10:39:09 +0200 (CEST)
Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="3fcec05ee8d15d6820b23a86f57e5b33";
	logging-data="2767174"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org";	posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+mRLalKuXv41zC8bYqRtpBd9ttsvGm3tY="
Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZYKZNbNmIgngyLwSrqHya8OANYk=
X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 3.19.1 (GTK+ 2.24.33; x86_64-w64-mingw32)
Bytes: 2008

On Sun, 12 May 2024 07:34:35 -0000 (UTC)
Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> wrote:

> Anton Ertl <anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> schrieb:
> > The point I wanted to make is that there is the frequent
> > misconception that dealing with individual arbitrary characters is
> > something that is relatively common, and that one can do that by
> > using UTF-32 (or UTF-16); it isn't, and one cannot.  
> 
> Do you really mean one cannot change an individual character
> using UTF-32?  I assume you mean "there is no need to do it"..
>

I would think that Anton meant to say that UCS-4/UTF-32 code point is
not the same as individual character.