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Re: UTF-8 and strings

From Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com>
Subject Re: UTF-8 and strings
Date 2011-06-08 08:01 +0100
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On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 13:30:30 -0700, Joshua Maurice wrote:

> If you want to work on win32 and unix-like systems, avoid wstring and
> wchar like the plague. It's 16 bits on win32, and 32 bits on most unix-
> like systems.

That's a silly reason to avoid std::wstring and wchar_t. You may as well
suggest avoiding "int" or "long" for similar reasons.

If you need to deal with individual "characters", wchar_t and std::wstring
are the most appropriate solution. Multi-byte strings are only sensible if
you're mainly treating strings as opaque values, passing them around
without paying too much attention to what is inside them.

Most of the awkward issues which affect internationalisation (e.g.
pre-composed characters versus composing characters, lexicographic
ordering, equivalence, etc) apply equally to multi-byte or wide strings,
so avoiding wide strings doesn't gain you anything here.

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UTF-8 and strings "John M. Dlugosz" <uwqejpnp92@snkmail.com> - 2011-06-07 08:08 -0700
  Re: UTF-8 and strings Asger-P <junk@asger-p.dk> - 2011-06-07 17:26 +0200
    Re: UTF-8 and strings "John M. Dlugosz" <uwqejpnp92@snkmail.com> - 2011-06-08 17:58 -0700
      Re: UTF-8 and strings Joshua Maurice <joshuamaurice@gmail.com> - 2011-06-08 18:21 -0700
        Re: UTF-8 and strings "John M. Dlugosz" <uwqejpnp92@snkmail.com> - 2011-06-09 06:38 -0700
  Re: UTF-8 and strings "Balog Pal" <pasa@lib.hu> - 2011-06-07 17:35 +0200
    Re: UTF-8 and strings "John M. Dlugosz" <uwqejpnp92@snkmail.com> - 2011-06-08 18:08 -0700
  Re: UTF-8 and strings Jeff Flinn <TriumphSprint2000@hotmail.com> - 2011-06-07 12:55 -0400
    Re: UTF-8 and strings Paavo Helde <myfirstname@osa.pri.ee> - 2011-06-07 15:29 -0500
      Re: UTF-8 and strings "MikeP" <mp011011@some.org> - 2011-06-08 07:15 -0500
        Re: UTF-8 and strings yatremblay@bel1lin202.(none) (Yannick Tremblay) - 2011-06-08 15:45 +0000
          Re: UTF-8 and strings "MikeP" <mp011011@some.org> - 2011-06-08 12:58 -0500
            Re: UTF-8 and strings yatremblay@bel1lin202.(none) (Yannick Tremblay) - 2011-06-09 09:18 +0000
              Re: UTF-8 and strings "MikeP" <mp011011@some.org> - 2011-06-09 07:36 -0500
                Re: UTF-8 and strings "John M. Dlugosz" <uwqejpnp92@snkmail.com> - 2011-06-10 13:18 -0700
                Re: UTF-8 and strings Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn@panix.com> - 2011-06-11 00:29 +0000
    Re: UTF-8 and strings "John M. Dlugosz" <uwqejpnp92@snkmail.com> - 2011-06-10 12:58 -0700
  Re: UTF-8 and strings diamondback <christopher.rau@gmail.com> - 2011-06-07 10:57 -0700
    Re: UTF-8 and strings Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2011-06-08 06:38 +0000
  Re: UTF-8 and strings Joshua Maurice <joshuamaurice@gmail.com> - 2011-06-07 13:30 -0700
    Re: UTF-8 and strings Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2011-06-08 06:52 +0000
      Re: UTF-8 and strings Marc <marc.glisse@gmail.com> - 2011-06-08 08:38 +0000
        Re: UTF-8 and strings Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> - 2011-06-08 18:02 +0900
          Re: UTF-8 and strings Joshua Maurice <joshuamaurice@gmail.com> - 2011-06-08 02:05 -0700
            Re: UTF-8 and strings Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> - 2011-06-08 18:11 +0900
          Re: UTF-8 and strings "MikeP" <mp011011@some.org> - 2011-06-08 07:22 -0500
        Re: UTF-8 and strings Joshua Maurice <joshuamaurice@gmail.com> - 2011-06-08 02:03 -0700
          Re: UTF-8 and strings Joshua Maurice <joshuamaurice@gmail.com> - 2011-06-08 02:06 -0700
        Re: UTF-8 and strings tm <thomas.mertes@gmx.at> - 2011-06-08 02:59 -0700
        Re: UTF-8 and strings "John M. Dlugosz" <uwqejpnp92@snkmail.com> - 2011-06-08 18:20 -0700
      Re: UTF-8 and strings Joshua Maurice <joshuamaurice@gmail.com> - 2011-06-08 01:56 -0700
      Re: UTF-8 and strings "MikeP" <mp011011@some.org> - 2011-06-08 07:19 -0500
        Re: UTF-8 and strings "John M. Dlugosz" <uwqejpnp92@snkmail.com> - 2011-06-10 13:12 -0700
          Re: UTF-8 and strings "MikeP" <mp011011@some.org> - 2011-06-10 18:34 -0500
            Re: UTF-8 and strings Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> - 2011-06-11 13:12 +0900
            Re: UTF-8 and strings "John M. Dlugosz" <uwqejpnp92@snkmail.com> - 2011-06-12 20:52 -0700
              Re: UTF-8 and strings ruben safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com> - 2011-06-13 03:57 +0000
                Re: UTF-8 and strings Asger-P <junk@asger-p.dk> - 2011-06-13 10:51 +0200
    Re: UTF-8 and strings Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2011-06-08 08:01 +0100
  Re: UTF-8 and strings Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2011-06-07 21:35 +0100
    Re: UTF-8 and strings Joshua Maurice <joshuamaurice@gmail.com> - 2011-06-08 01:56 -0700
      Re: UTF-8 and strings Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2011-06-09 03:22 +0100
  Re: UTF-8 and strings yatremblay@bel1lin202.(none) (Yannick Tremblay) - 2011-06-08 15:55 +0000
    Re: UTF-8 and strings "John M. Dlugosz" <uwqejpnp92@snkmail.com> - 2011-06-08 17:55 -0700
      Re: UTF-8 and strings yatremblay@bel1lin202.(none) (Yannick Tremblay) - 2011-06-09 10:02 +0000
        Re: UTF-8 and strings "MikeP" <mp011011@some.org> - 2011-06-09 08:41 -0500
          Re: UTF-8 and strings "John M. Dlugosz" <uwqejpnp92@snkmail.com> - 2011-06-12 20:57 -0700
            Re: UTF-8 and strings ruben safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com> - 2011-06-13 04:46 +0000
              Re: UTF-8 and strings Asger-P <junk@asger-p.dk> - 2011-06-13 11:58 +0200
        Re: UTF-8 and strings "John M. Dlugosz" <uwqejpnp92@snkmail.com> - 2011-06-09 06:52 -0700

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