[haiku-development] Re: BString method SymbolAt() proposal
- From: Reinhard Scharnagl <ReScharn@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 18:51:28 +0200
Am 19.06.2010 um 18:34 schrieb Oliver Tappe:
>
> On 2010-06-19 at 12:39:47 [+0200], Reinhard Scharnagl <rescharn@xxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>> The BString class seems to be not complete. Typical UTF8 symbols
>> like '€' do not fit into one char but into an int32. Nevertheless BString
>> methods only support char parameters, where handling a single UTF8
>> symbol is intended.
>
> That's not at all true, there are:
> const char* CharAt(int32 charIndex, int32* bytes =
> NULL) const;
> bool CharAt(int32 charIndex, char*
> buffer,
> int32* bytes)
> const;
>
> which are perfectly capable of returning characters of any byte-length.
It is a very rare art to misunderstand my words that extreme.
BString s += '€';
is an example for such a char parameter, which is not capable for UTF8 symbols.
I made a simple proposal for a BString method SymbolAt(), which might need
about 20 lines of code. The discussion about it raised a lot of opposition by
people, whose arguments I cannot understand, because they are completely
misleading.
I decide to invest my programming time in more fruitful projects instead.
Sorry, if I should have waisted your time.
Reinhard (Octopus)
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