Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Apr 1998 15:06:03 -0700 (PDT) | From | Alex Belits <> | Subject | Re: unicode (char as abstract data type) |
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On 17 Apr 1998, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> Alex Belits <abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us> writes: > > > The problem is, for handling the data in applications UTF-8 is the very > > worst format ever invented by a human. > > You will not handled UTF-8 internally. > > UTF-8 is normally meant to be the external representation of UCS2 or > UCS4. Once you load a text you use iconv() or mbsrtowcs() function to > convert to UCS4 which then can be used internally just like 8bit > strings. All the functions are in place. In glibc 2.2 there will > finaly be the possibility to use wide-char streams so that you would > not even have to to the conversion yourself. Simply use fgetws or > whatever you want to use and it'll work.
And how will I name the encoding that I will get from that if I don't use Unicode, but have it in local charset instead? People who write "internationalization" standards should once in a while check, if Unicode is now anything but the most worldwide hated charset.
-- Alex
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