On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 09:04:40AM -0500, Ron Kuper wrote: > I prefer 16-bit Unicode. We spent several months last year converting > SONAR non-English from multibyte character sets to straight 16-bit > Unicode. I much prefer the Unicode, it makes string length counting etc > much easier. I punted to spec on this issue. It seems to be pretty obviously a spec issue :) > -----Original Message----- > From: gmpi-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gmpi-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On > Behalf Of Tim Hockin > Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 8:53 PM > To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [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? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Generalized Music Plugin Interface (GMPI) public discussion list > Participation in this list is contingent upon your abiding by the > following rules: Please stay on topic. You are responsible for your > own > words. Please respect your fellow subscribers. Please do not > redistribute anyone else's words without their permission. > > Archive: //www.freelists.org/archives/gmpi > Email gmpi-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx w/ subject "unsubscribe" to unsubscribe > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Generalized Music Plugin Interface (GMPI) public discussion list > Participation in this list is contingent upon your abiding by the > following rules: Please stay on topic. You are responsible for your own > words. Please respect your fellow subscribers. Please do not > redistribute anyone else's words without their permission. > > Archive: //www.freelists.org/archives/gmpi > Email gmpi-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx w/ subject "unsubscribe" to unsubscribe -- Tim Hockin thockin@xxxxxxxxxx Soon anyone who's not on the World Wide Web will qualify for a government subsidy for the home-pageless. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Generalized Music Plugin Interface (GMPI) public discussion list Participation in this list is contingent upon your abiding by the following rules: Please stay on topic. You are responsible for your own words. Please respect your fellow subscribers. Please do not redistribute anyone else's words without their permission. Archive: //www.freelists.org/archives/gmpi Email gmpi-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx w/ subject "unsubscribe" to unsubscribe