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Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Byte Addressability And Beyond Date: Tue, 28 May 2024 01:25:37 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 12 Message-ID: <v33bqg$9cst$11@dont-email.me> References: <v0s17o$2okf4$2@dont-email.me> <v31c4r$3u28v$1@dont-email.me> <v327n3$1use$1@gal.iecc.com> <BM25O.40665$HBac.4762@fx15.iad> <v32lpv$1u25$1@gal.iecc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 28 May 2024 03:25:37 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="f9fa71f6bded3e8519d33d87ee221dff"; logging-data="308125"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+OgEAvgy/JIYwTwYDcYpjB" User-Agent: Pan/0.158 (Avdiivka; ) Cancel-Lock: sha1:KGqXTTicCtnelGjVXF6HnlVFEG0= Bytes: 1507 On Mon, 27 May 2024 19:09:51 -0000 (UTC), John Levine wrote: > According to EricP <ThatWouldBeTelling@thevillage.com>: >> >> One could have instructions that make it easier to parse the variable >> length UTF-8 sequences into codepoints. > > That would be the CU14 instruction on zSeries, to turn UTF-8 into > UTF-32. CU41 goes the other way. What is the point, in this day and age, of having special machine instructions to convert character encodings?