[haiku-development] Re: BString and UTF-8
- From: David Given <dg@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2011 01:25:23 +0000
On 03/12/11 23:22, Oliver Tappe wrote:
[...]
> Hm, let me think, where did I get this from? Ah, right, String.h. If you
> would have taken care to look, you would have noticed that it declares
> several ...Chars() methods that take character based lengths and indices as
> parameters. Those support (and expect) UTF-8 encoding.
Just to clarify: by 'characters', you mean code points, right? They're
not quite the same thing --- the closest Unicode equivalent to a
character is the grapheme cluster, which can actually be made out of
multiple code points.
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