Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: unicode (char as abstract data type) | Date | Fri, 17 Apr 1998 20:42:51 +0100 (BST) |
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> UNICODE is more then just irritating. The problem is that the programming > language thinks in terms of char* text. You start using wchar_t and before > you know it, you have a huge mess and you just can't seem to get the types > quite right anymore.
That is why UTF8 is the right format to use in real situations. UTF8 works just like ascii in memory handling respects - its just that x++ is no longer always move on one char and strlen(x) isnt the right answer
Alan
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