Giacomo A. Catenazzi, le Wed 12 Aug 2009 07:54:33 +0200, a écrit : > Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Gunnar Wolf, le Tue 11 Aug 2009 13:28:08 -0500, a écrit : > >> while length(str) in any language up to the 1990s was a mere > >> substraction, now we must go through the string checking each byte to > >> see if it is a Unicode marker and substract the appropriate number of > >> bytes. > > > > Not necessarily. Any sane implementation should just use wchar_t and > > substraction gets back. > > An implementation that use wchar_t is usually not sane, but usually > it is (also) buggy.
Why? It's just about using wide functions instead of usual functions. > PS: note that the binary encoding depend on compiler environment (but > such info is not exported). See my other mail. A lot of things can be made to depend on the compiler environment. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org