[haiku-development] Re: Need new UTF-16 to UTF-8 conversion functions in exfat, GPL okay?

  • From: Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 17:13:55 +0100

On 14.02.2014 18:19, John Scipione wrote:
Furthermore I only need UTF16 to UTF8 conversion for ExFAT, I'd like
the rest though for completion.

We already have code that deals with UTF-8 to Unicode and back, so that's not needed. We don't need duplicate versions of anything in our repository, we should only have a single version that works, and share that everywhere.

Besides that, I completely agree with Jonathan about the premature optimization. Maybe it wasn't premature at all, though -- it may just be very old code, as doing table lookups used to speed up things in the 1990s :-)

Bye,
   Axel.


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