Re: is glib too bloated?

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Hi,

Brandon Casey wrote:
> It's hard for me to think of unicode as
> being low-level when it adds so much overhead to string handling.

I think many just wouldn't agree - yes it adds overhead, but without 
Unicode, string handling doesn't *work* - so saving the overhead is 
pretty useless unless your app deals purely in binary data and never 
displays any human-readable strings.

Binary/unknown-encoding text can't be displayed, even on a terminal. How 
many apps don't display text? Not a whole lot of them.

Havoc