On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Glenn Maynard wrote:

> > BTDTGTTS.
>
> BTDPQKKD!  (trans: what?)

Been There, Done That, Got The T-Shirt!

Alternate is "BTDTGTFTS" ;-)

> Obeying the locale's encoding is both good practice and an absolute
> requirement for most; outputting UTF-8 in all locales is simply wrong.
> It's certainly very bad advice.
>
> > But, you're converting utf-8 values that (strictly speaking) are out of
> > range _and_ assuming the wchar_t is a UCS character.
>
> Why does Mr. Lazy even care about ancient non-__STDC_ISO_10646__ systems?
> He's lazy! :)

But the people who write the libs for Mr. Lazy should care.

-- 
Rob.                          (Robert de Bath <robert$ @ debath.co.uk>)
                                       <http://www.cix.co.uk/~mayday>


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