[haiku-development] Re: BString and UTF-8
- From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:32:56 +0100
On 2011-12-02 at 12:58:10 [+0100], Michael Bridgers <mibrid@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> I want to make it very clear that these changes will be backwardly
> compatible. Of course, by its definition, there will be changes to the
> behavior of the BString. But for current operations that maintain a
> valid UTF-8 string, the behavior will not change. The behavior will only
> be different when the operation would have created an invalid UTF-8
> string. Plus, I will add enhanced operations to the class.
A behavioral change like this is a problem for backward compatibility. Be did
not document BString to be able to hold only valid UTF-8 strings, but any
valid C-String. So a behavioral change in this respect might break things.
CU, Ingo
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