Re: Unicode question...

[Robert Brady <robert susu org uk>]

On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Derek Simkowiak wrote:

> 	Has 13 ASCII characters, the last one of which is \n.  What does
> that look like as a wide character?  What does \t look like?  Does it
> matter?

The first 128 codes in unicode are ASCII the same as in ASCII. so, \n, \t
and so on will work as expected.

>       if ( *utf8_input_string == '\n' )

Yep.

> 	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..)

-- 
Robert