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| From | David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c++ |
| Subject | Re: How to write wide char string literals? |
| Date | 2021-07-01 12:58 +0200 |
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On 01/07/2021 10:44, Juha Nieminen wrote:
> David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote:
>> Code can require non-ASCII characters without need internationalisation.
>> gettext and the like are certainly useful, but they are very heavy
>> tools compared to a fixed string or small table of strings in the code.
>> If you are writing a program for use in single company in Germany
>> (since you have a German email address), with all the texts in German,
>> would you want to use internationalisation frameworks just to make
>> "groß" turn out right?
>
> There are also many situations where using non-ascii characters in
> string literals may not be related to language and internationalization.
Good point.
> After all, Unicode contains loads of characters that are not related
> to spoken languages, such as math symbols, and lots of other types
> of symbols which are universal and don't require any sort of
> internationalization. Sometimes these symbols may be used all on
> their own, sometimes as part of text (eg. in labels and titles).
>
> Also, unit tests for code supporting Unicode may benefit from
> being able to use string literals with non-ascii characters.
> (Of course, as noted in other posts in this thread, there is a
> working solution to get around this, and it's the use of the \u
> escape character.)
>
Yes - but such workarounds are hideous compared to writing:
printf("Temperature %.1f °C\n", 123.4);
I am glad most of my code only has to compile with gcc, and I can ignore
such portability matters.
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