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

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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