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SubjectRe: unicode (char as abstract data type)
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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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