Path: csiph.com!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2016 14:10:13 -0500 User-Agent: NewsTap/5.1.8 (iPad) Cancel-Lock: sha1:O309nFECNS/s0WOhB/SdHgufosY= Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c Subject: Re: "Unicode" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Mr Flibble References: <57ca82af.1170031@news.xs4all.nl> Message-ID: Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2016 14:10:13 -0500 Lines: 27 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-T1PmFDVnwgR/KWN0N5xAOzPJsI9rLY19NjCej+cI+MfaCl4i+JEUGvZ/J2Q6dE+MDCpxMeNjusAyCKB!IsqV5Dxlakcaov0c/2N0Ae5xOfWa6nc+vgJcn/66iP/62469S5UiUwf/N/0xUCRt5P2PSLzjlfc= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2041 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c++:44787 comp.lang.c:93160 Richard Bos wrote: > Mr Flibble wrote: > >> On 29/08/2016 18:06, Lynn McGuire wrote: >>> "Unicode" >>> http://xkcd.com/1726/ >>> >>> "Watching the Unicode people try to govern the infinite chaos of human >>> language with consistent technical standards is like watching highway >>> engineers try to steer a river using traffic signs." >>> >>> As usual, Randall Munroe nails it. >> >> Unicode is simple in C++: just use std::string and UTF-8. > > You... do not understand Unicode. > > If you think the problem is just one of choosing one correct charset, > you're very naive. The problems are much hairier than that, and much > more detailed. Of course I understand Unicode: I am designing a compliant text editor widget as I write this. As far as C++ is concerned it really is that simple. /Flibble