Re: Unicode and C++

From: Per Hedbor <per idonex se>
To: Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>
Cc: gtk-i18n-list gnome org, libstdc++ sourceware cygnus com,otaylor redhat com
Subject: Re: Unicode and C++
Date: 04 Jul 2000 00:05:28 +0200

> Or in the GTK+ case, massive quantities of legacy code that has to
> keep working. UTF8 is pretty easy to port to

Only if you live in the US or some other 8-bit challenged country.

If you do not, you have to decode from UTF8 everywhere to support
things like file-names, names etc. anyway. Thus, the porting job is
not really smaller, only more hidden.

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Per Hedbor                                   http://per.hedbor.org/

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References:
- Unicode and C++
  - From: Nathan Myers
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