Re: Proposal for 2 Byte Unicode implementation in gcc and glibc

[Jamie Lokier]

Andrew Cunningham wrote:
> any implimentation of utf-16 must include the capacity to correctly handle
> valid surrogate pairs. You cann't restrict utf-16 characters to 2-bytes.

That's way conversion from utf-16 to utf-32 should be analogous to
conversion from utf-8 to wchar_t, � la mbtowcs.  Etc.  The rules about
character by character processing apply.  You may wish to use utf32_t
for the intermediate characters, e.g. in a simple parser.

-- Jamie
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