> A couple questions about multibyte strings...
>
> Do all the characters in the same encoding use the same number of bytes
per
> character, or is it possible for an encoding to use 3 bytes for one
> character, 1 for another, etc?
Unicode (not used on Palm) uses constant char length 2 By, multibyte strings
have veriable char length. MB strings are shorter, but more difficult to
process.
>
> Is there a string library available anywhere for multibyte strings or does
> everyone roll their own strlen, atoi, strtok, etc? It'd be nice to see a
> class for multibyte chars that overload [] and provides string.h
> functionality.
AFAIK Text Manager API should provide what you need (although low level).
Regards
Jan Slodicka
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