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| From | Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: Array manipulation techniques |
| Date | 2015-11-16 15:22 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <87lh9yq89o.fsf@bsb.me.uk> (permalink) |
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Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> writes: > On Monday, November 16, 2015 at 1:09:33 PM UTC, Ben Bacarisse wrote: >> Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> writes: >> <snip> >> > Ideally I'd use [...] uint8_t for unsigned values that go from 0-255, >> > [...] and char for ascii/ UTF-8 values. (If you have converted UTF-8 >> > to a code point, pass around as int). >> >> That's only safe if int is big enough. Also, I would favour uint8_t (or >> unsigned char in older code) for UTF-8. The bytes in UTF-8 are not >> characters (at least not always) so char seems to be a bit of lie -- >> they are either positive numbers or bit patterns (depending on your point >> of view) that combine arithmetically to represent characters. >> > But the point of UTF-8 is that it's as backwards compatible as an > extended coding can be with ascii. Most C programs are full of > functions that take char *s and process them transparently as tags or > messages. Yes, I would not advice changing existing declarations just because you might now be handling UTF-8. I was talking about the situation where I knew the data and wanted the "best" type for it. -- Ben.
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Array manipulation techniques "Morten W. Petersen" <morphex@gmail.com> - 2015-11-15 09:44 +0100
Re: Array manipulation techniques Barry Schwarz <schwarzb@dqel.com> - 2015-11-15 01:56 -0800
Re: Array manipulation techniques Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-11-15 10:43 -0800
Re: Array manipulation techniques Chad <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2015-11-15 10:54 -0800
Re: Array manipulation techniques Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-11-16 08:13 +1300
Re: Array manipulation techniques Chad <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2015-11-15 12:50 -0800
Re: Array manipulation techniques Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> - 2015-11-15 14:07 -0600
Re: Array manipulation techniques Barry Schwarz <schwarzb@dqel.com> - 2015-11-15 15:12 -0800
Re: Array manipulation techniques glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2015-11-15 09:57 +0000
Re: Array manipulation techniques Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-11-15 03:02 -0800
Array manipulation techniques asetofsymbols@gmail.com - 2015-11-15 12:02 -0800
Array manipulation techniques asetofsymbols@gmail.com - 2015-11-15 12:05 -0800
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Re: Array manipulation techniques Chad <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2015-11-15 12:48 -0800
Re: Array manipulation techniques Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-11-15 17:05 -0800
Re: Array manipulation techniques Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-11-15 19:09 -0800
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Re: Array manipulation techniques Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-11-16 07:17 +0000
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Re: Array manipulation techniques Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-11-16 07:47 +0000
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Re: Array manipulation techniques BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-11-16 11:10 +0000
Re: Array manipulation techniques Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-11-16 03:33 -0800
Re: Array manipulation techniques Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-11-16 13:09 +0000
Re: Array manipulation techniques Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-11-16 05:59 -0800
Re: Array manipulation techniques Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-11-16 15:22 +0000
Re: Array manipulation techniques Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-11-16 16:57 +0000
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Re: Development Best Practices and C "nomenclature" glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2015-11-17 20:12 +0000
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Re: Development Best Practices and C "nomenclature" Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-11-16 20:25 +0000
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Re: Development Best Practices and C "nomenclature" glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2015-11-21 07:08 +0000
Re: Development Best Practices and C "nomenclature" Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-11-22 13:52 -0800
Re: Array manipulation techniques Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-11-15 17:03 -0800
Re: Array manipulation techniques Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2015-11-15 15:09 -0500
Re: Array manipulation techniques Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-11-15 21:47 +0000
Re: Array manipulation techniques Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-11-15 17:02 -0800
Re: Array manipulation techniques Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-11-16 10:44 -0800
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Re: Array manipulation techniques Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-11-16 11:57 -0800
Re: Array manipulation techniques Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-11-17 10:30 +1300
Re: Array manipulation techniques Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2015-11-17 08:11 -0500
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Re: Array manipulation techniques Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-11-20 13:09 -0800
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