[gmpi] Re: GMPI req's draft 1 for review.
- From: Tim Hockin <thockin@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 17:53:16 -0800
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 01:45:57PM +1300, Jeff McClintock wrote:
> 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.
I'm no localization expert. So I'll defer on arguing this any further. I
don't want to make string handling a pain in the ass, but obviously it
will be for someone if it is not for someone else :)
Anyone else? Maybe the requirement should be more vague, and punt the
decision to the spec?
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