Re: [dev] [st] wide characters

From: Alexander Sedov <alex0player_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 23:18:40 +0400

2013/4/15 Strake <strake888_AT_gmail.com>:
> On 15/04/2013, random832_AT_fastmail.us <random832_AT_fastmail.us> wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013, at 10:58, Martti Kühne wrote:
>>> According to a quick google those chars can become as wide as 6
>>> bytes,
>>
>> No, they can't. I have no idea what your source on this is.
>
> In UTF-8 the maximum encoded character length is 6 bytes [1]
>
> [1] Linux docs: man 7 utf-8
>
> This is more than a four-byte integer ('‿')
>
1. That's outdated information. Unicode range was reduced since then.
2. That's relevant to multibyte characters, not to wide. Wide are
always fixed size.
Received on Mon Apr 15 2013 - 21:18:40 CEST