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

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 :)

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> 
> 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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