Re: GLib String support

From: "Colin Walters" <walters verbum org>
To: "Mathias Hasselmann" <mathias hasselmann gmx de>
Cc: gtk-devel-list gnome org
Subject: Re: GLib String support
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:23:53 -0400

2008/8/11 Mathias Hasselmann <mathias hasselmann gmx de>:
>
> Remains the question: Why are their ASCII only versions of all those
> functions. Dunno. Legacy? Performance? Side note: Why don't have Intel's
> fancy processors some g_utf8_next_char() function yet?

The reason there are ASCII-only versions of string functions is for
protocols, parsing config files, etc.  For example if you were
implementing the HTTP protocol, you (probably) don't want to accept
any Unicode number when reading the status code, etc.

References:
- GLib String support
  - From: adrian . dmc
- Re: GLib String support
  - From: Mathias Hasselmann

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