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Re: UTF-8 with C, simply

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On 28.11.2016 16:00, Siri Cruise wrote:
> In article <6a3e7ab3-eb0d-4794-befb-adae3729c746@googlegroups.com>,
>  luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I knew nothing of the mbtowc and friends except that they
>> existed but didn't seem to describe anything useful to me. 
>> I never got the connection that the wc could be the ucs2 or
>> ucs4 code and the mb could be the corresponding utf8 code.
>> But James's recent post about the file mode and fgetwc lead
>> me to this setup:
> 
> I found the documentation too indecisive, making it sound like I would have to 
> run test programs to figure out what's going on.
> 
> 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.
> 

These days most sane implementations (and probably and implementation
that matters to you) will use Unicode for char16_t, char32_t and wchar_t.
I wouldn't bother with runtime checks, and instead just check for the
relevant macros (__STDC_UTF_16__, __STDC_UTF_32__, __STDC_ISO_10646__)
at compile time, just to give a proper #error in case someone compiles
my code on something where it wouldn't work.
Unfortunately, for UTF-8 the situation is more complicated.

Philipp

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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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