Re: Unicode question...

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Derek Simkowiak <dereks@kd-dev.com> writes:

> -> > 	will not work.  Or is there some kind of hidden typecasting that
> -> > will let the one-byte \n compare directly to a 4-byte ucs4 character?
> -> 
> -> That does work magically. You can use L'\n' as a wchar_t constant
> -> also. (dunno how widely supported that is, though..)
> 
> 
> 	Really?  Just to make sure I understand you correctly:
> 
>   gunicode ucs4_character;
> 
>   [...]
>   if (ucs4_character == '\n')  g_print("Am thinkink is cool.");
> 
> 
> 	...will actually work as expected?  Then what about:
> 
>   if (ucs4_character == 'T')  g_print("It's a big tee.");
>   if (ucs4_character == 't')  g_print("It's a little tee.");
>   if (ucs4_character == '\t')  g_print("It's a TAB character.");
> 
> 
> 	Will that work as expected?  Man, that would be cool...

Of course it works. The lowest 128 characters of Unicode
are identical to ASCII.
                                        Owen