[bitc-dev] Newline conventions

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 03:43 +0000, David Hopwood wrote:

> The advantage of fixed-length encoding of code points is less than might
> be expected, because encodings of Unicode "abstract characters" are always
> potentially variable-length due to combining sequences.

In this regard, what do I need to be taking into account before choosing
an internal encoding?