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Re: UTF-8 with C, simply

From Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: UTF-8 with C, simply
Date 2016-11-28 21:38 -0800
Organization None to speak of
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Siri Cruise <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> writes:
[...]
> The conversion between unicode and UTF-8 is very simple
> intentionnally. So I use a library like Tcl which explicitly states it
> is exactly UTF-8 and unicode or I just write my own. For any other
> conversions I use iconv with char strings and explicitly given
> character encoding names.

What do you mean by "conversion between unicode and UTF-8"?  Unicode is
not a representation.  UTF-8 is one of several representations *of*
Unicode.

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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
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UTF-8 with C, simply luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2016-11-27 18:09 -0800
  Re: UTF-8 with C, simply James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2016-11-27 22:05 -0500
  Re: UTF-8 with C, simply Lorinczy Zsigmond <zsiga@nospam.for.me> - 2016-11-28 09:42 +0100
    Re: UTF-8 with C, simply James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2016-11-28 09:10 -0500
      Re: UTF-8 with C, simply Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de> - 2016-11-28 21:55 +0100
        Re: UTF-8 with C, simply "James R. Kuyper" <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2016-11-28 16:18 -0500
  Re: UTF-8 with C, simply Siri Cruise <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2016-11-28 07:00 -0800
    Re: UTF-8 with C, simply Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de> - 2016-11-28 21:53 +0100
    Re: UTF-8 with C, simply Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-11-28 21:38 -0800
  Re: UTF-8 with C, simply Nobody <nobody@nowhere.invalid> - 2016-12-01 01:52 +0000
    Re: UTF-8 with C, simply luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2016-11-30 18:20 -0800
      Re: UTF-8 with C, simply luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2016-11-30 18:25 -0800
        Re: UTF-8 with C, simply luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2016-11-30 18:28 -0800

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