Mike Raiford <"m[raiford]!at"@gmail.com> wrote:
> The unicode thing to me is strange, though. Why is it capable of only
> displaying part of the string?

Possibly using UTF-8 to store the string, giving you a non-constant number of
bytes per character, which makes handling such strings (like, say, displaying
the substring starting from the 42th character) non-trivial.

Add limitations of the software design chosen before they decided to add Unicode
support at all, and pressure to finish the product on time, and you're there.

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