Re: lynx-dev Lynx and Euro symbol support

[Jacob Poon]

On Sat, 20 Feb 1999, Leonid Pauzner wrote:

> Well, it would be probably nicer to keep lynx internal data in unicode
> (2bytes). This eventually require rewriting of all string operations but
> there is a deeper problem: some unicodes may be mapped to multichars
> combination for your display charset but lynx should know the resulting
> number of letters to place "newline" properly. That is why lynx keep
> internal data as a stream of bytes, this also covers CJK multubytes and
> UTF-8 multibytes.

There is more than just replacing strings.  Since most Lynx's messages are
still written in English (except the Japanese Lynx that rarely involves
with Lynx-dev discussions), storing them in with UCS-2 will double message
lengths.  With most Latin-based translations, they don't need double byte
storage (usually ISO-8859-x will do).