On 24/12/2013, Silvan Jegen <s.jegen_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> So I guess the question boils down to whether you would rather use
> libutf or the standardized, POSIX-locale-dependent wchar.h functions for
> the UTF-8 conversion. I see one advantage of the wchar.h functions:
> If we use them we could avoid adding an external dependency to
> sbase. The disadvantage is the fact that we would depend on the
> whole posix-locale-thing which seems unnecessarily complicated in
> places.
Use wchar.h functions and a sane libc, e.g. musl, which has a pure
UTF-8 C locale, which ISO C explicitly allows [1].
The 8-bit clarity what POSIX wants [1] seems nonsense to me, as one
can use byte functions for that, but I may be wrong.
[1]
http://wiki.musl-libc.org/wiki/Functional_differences_from_glibc
Received on Tue Dec 24 2013 - 19:07:10 CET