On 12 July 2011 18:12, Lukas Renggli <[email protected]> wrote: >> What do you mean with 'whatever you do, you end up with a broken system' ? >> Any concrete examples ? > > If you do not encode, then you have "unreadable" strings in the image > and operations like #copyFrom:to:, #size, #indexOf:, ... might answer > unexpected or invalid results, because UTF-8 strings are just treated > as byte arrays. > > If you do encode, then you have "readable" strings in the image but > you might run into widestring/encoding problems (check the open issues > on the tracker). > so, what about adding a string subclass UT8String so it can be readable and with correct encoding? :)
>> Do you have a pointer to Philippe's presentation ? > > http://www.slideshare.net/esug/esug-unicode > > Lukas > > -- > Lukas Renggli > www.lukas-renggli.ch > > -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko AKA sig.
