From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-08-31T21:52:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Encodings of string literals; explicit codepoint escapes?

On Aug 31, 2007, at 4:42 AM, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In message "Re: Encodings of string literals; explicit codepoint  
> escapes?"
>     on Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:55:21 +0900, "Nikolai Weibull"  
> <now@bitwi.se> writes:
>
> |> But you need to require additional library to get:
> |>
> |>   * characters from Unicode name
> |
> |Won't keeping all Unicode character's name in memory be very, very  
> expensive?
>
> That's why we need to require the library.  If you don't want to use
> \N at all, you don't have to pay the price.

Could we do binary search on a Unicode names data file instead?  I  
guess we would take a small speed hit for that, but it's easy on the  
memory.

James Edward Gray II