[gmpi] Re: GMPI req's draft 1 for review.

HI,
My point is, both Windows and Mac API use 16bit UNICODE. If you pass my plugin a 8bit string I've got to convert it, I've got to allocate memory to hold the longer 16bit representation. Then if I need to pass it back I've got to convert it back to multibyte.
Handling UTF-8 multibyte characters is a big inefficient pain. Some characters are 8 bits, some are extended to multiple bytes. Some strings have mixtures of single-byte and multi-byte chracters Any kind of string manipulation is complicated by having to scan the string from the beginning so as to avoid chopping a multi-byte character in two. Novice programmers ignore the multi-byte characters and treat the string as ASCII, leading to internationalization bugs.
I believe most programmers will find it easier to deal with fixed-width strings using the ANSI wchar_t datatype.

Best Regards,
jeff

Tim Hockin wrote: 
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 09:50:37AM +1300, Jeff McClintock wrote:

"All strings in GMPI should be UTF-8 encoded unicode strings."

UNICODE - yes
8 bit?  - Aren't most operating sytems using 16 bit text now?



UTF8 is an encoding that makes the default character be 8 bits.  It is
implicitly compatible with ASCII and existing tools.  To represent
unicaode characters > 255, you use a variable-length encoding.
It's just that variable length> 
This gives maximal portability with full unicode support.

Tim

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