RE: Software support costs (was: Nicest UTF

2004-12-11 Thread Carl W. Brown
Philippe, However, within the program itself UTF-8 presents a problem when looking for specific data in memory buffers. It is nasty, time consuming and error prone. Mapping UTF-16 to code points is a snap as long as you do not have a lot of surrogates. If you do then probably UTF-32 should be

Re: Software support costs (was: Nicest UTF

2004-12-10 Thread Philippe Verdy
From: Carl W. Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Philippe, Also a broken opening tag for HTML/XML documents In addition to not having endian problems UTF-8 is also useful when tracing intersystem communications data because XML and other tags are usually in the ASCII subset of UTF-8 and stand out making it

Software support costs (was: Nicest UTF

2004-12-10 Thread Carl W. Brown
Philippe, Also a broken opening tag for HTML/XML documents In addition to not having endian problems UTF-8 is also useful when tracing intersystem communications data because XML and other tags are usually in the ASCII subset of UTF-8 and stand out making it easier to find the specific data you

Re: Software support costs (was: Nicest UTF)

2004-12-10 Thread Theodore H. Smith
Philippe, Also a broken opening tag for HTML/XML documents In addition to not having endian problems UTF-8 is also useful when tracing intersystem communications data because XML and other tags are usually in the ASCII subset of UTF-8 and stand out making it easier to find the specific data you