From: Eljay Love-Jensen <eljay@adobe.com>
To: Dallas Clarke <DClarke@unwired.com.au>
Cc: GCC-help <gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:11:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C4D71A52.8086%eljay@adobe.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <002101c905ad$aef4ce10$3b9c65dc@testserver>
Hi Dallas,
> Once again, there are no legacy issues because no one is currently using
16-bit Unicode in GCC, it does not exist.
I'm using UTF-16 Unicode in GCC. I've done so for years.
I do not use wchar_t to specify UTF-16 Unicode, since that is not portable.
The same code runs on different platforms, the Windows platform being
compiled with MSVC++.
Although what you say is not without merit, in that C/C++ do not specify the
character set (let alone the encoding of the character set).
> So I have to ask - what are your arguments for not providing support for all
> three, 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit Unicode strings?
It is not part of ISO 9899 (for C), nor ISO 14882 (for C++).
There are languages which support UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32 Unicode strings.
C and C++ are not those languages.
There are support libraries for Unicode (UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32) for C
and C++. They work on Linux and on Windows. You are at liberty to use
those.
If you use Microsoft's extensions to C++, your code is no longer C++... it
is MS-C++. Portability issues will be problematic, at least until Microsoft
comes out with MSVC++ for Linux and OS X and whatever other platform you are
interested in.
Maybe a future version of C and/or C++ will be more Unicode friendly.
Sincerely,
--Eljay
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-24 19:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <002901c903df$08265510$3b9c65dc@testserver>
2008-08-22 14:54 ` Eljay Love-Jensen
2008-08-23 2:00 ` Dallas Clarke
2008-08-23 2:24 ` me22
2008-08-23 2:45 ` Dallas Clarke
2008-08-23 3:06 ` me22
2008-08-23 3:52 ` Dallas Clarke
2008-08-23 4:31 ` Brian Dessent
2008-08-23 11:33 ` Andrew Haley
2008-08-23 21:41 ` Eljay Love-Jensen
2008-08-24 0:41 ` Dallas Clarke
2008-08-24 4:02 ` me22
2008-08-24 5:53 ` corey taylor
2008-08-24 6:02 ` Dallas Clarke
2008-08-24 11:11 ` me22
2008-08-24 19:11 ` Eljay Love-Jensen [this message]
2008-08-26 14:50 ` Marco Manfredini
2008-08-25 23:15 ` Matthew Woehlke
2008-08-26 4:14 ` Dallas Clarke
2008-08-26 6:03 ` Matthew Woehlke
2008-08-26 18:29 ` Jim Cobban
2008-08-26 18:37 ` me22
2008-08-26 19:20 ` me22
2008-08-26 21:29 ` me22
2008-08-27 13:29 ` me22
2008-08-26 18:54 ` Andrew Haley
2008-08-26 21:19 ` me22
2008-08-27 8:18 ` me22
2008-08-27 11:45 ` me22
2008-08-21 5:16 Dallas Clarke
2008-08-21 9:30 ` me22
[not found] ` <004501c90350$87491330$0100a8c0@testserver>
2008-08-21 12:49 ` me22
2008-08-21 10:18 ` Andrew Haley
2008-08-21 11:50 ` Dallas Clarke
2008-08-21 12:15 ` John Love-Jensen
2008-08-21 14:38 ` John Gateley
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