Re: [dev] [st] wide characters

From: Random832 <random832_AT_fastmail.us>
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2013 20:56:50 -0400

On 04/13/2013 07:07 PM, Aurélien Aptel wrote:
> The ISO/IEC 10646:2003 Unicode standard 4.0 says that:
>
> "The width of wchar_t is compiler-specific and can be as small as
> 8 bits. Consequently, programs that need to be portable across any C
> or C++ compiler should not use wchar_t for storing Unicode text. The
> wchar_t type is intended for storing compiler-defined wide characters,
> which may be Unicode characters in some compilers."
>
> utf-8 is rather straightforward to handle and process.
>
Okay, but why not work with a unicode code point as an int?
Received on Sun Apr 14 2013 - 02:56:50 CEST