> On 21 Nov 2016, at 13:35, Dimitris Chloupis <kilon.al...@gmail.com> wrote: > > " reality check... > http://utf8everywhere.org/ > > Sorry I don't remember enough of my Unicode research six months ago to > be more help. > Only enough to know there are traps and hunt down that article. > > cheers -ben" > > Really .... ??? > > So bad ??? > > Oh well good thing I did not intend to use Unicode. Very eye opening article > thanks. > > "First read the general introduction > > > https://ci.inria.fr/pharo-contribution/job/EnterprisePharoBook/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/book-result/Zinc-Encoding-Meta/Zinc-Encoding-Meta.html > > That should be more than enough (we got all basic covered in Pharo). > > If you want more, there is the Pharo Unicode project > > > https://medium.com/concerning-pharo/an-implementation-of-unicode-normalization-7c6719068f43 > > But you most probably don't need that. > > I thought that Windows used UTF-16 internally > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-16#Usage"; > > Yes Windoom uses UTF-16, I am amazed how the coding world managed to take > another simple problem and make it so complex. > > In any case , I dont need Unicode . I made the decision to just chain string > characters together in 2 byte unicode arrays , I wont be converting from or > to Unicode anyway. For usual English characters the second byte of a Unicode > character array on Win 10 is always 00 which is a waste of memory anyway. > > Unicode may come handy when I have to deal with translating the game to other > languages , but this for now is a very low priority. > > As always I love your medium posts, clear, simple and to the point. > Definitely bookmarked for future reference. Thanks
You might as well use the real thing (and then you're good for the future too): ZnUTF16Encoder new encodeString: 'Ελλάδα'. "#[3 149 3 187 3 187 3 172 3 180 3 177]" ZnUTF16Encoder new encodeString: 'Greece'. "#[0 71 0 114 0 101 0 101 0 99 0 101]" ZnUTF16Encoder new decodeBytes: #[3 149 3 187 3 187 3 172 3 180 3 177]. "'Ελλάδα'" ZnUTF16Encoder new decodeBytes: #[0 71 0 114 0 101 0 101 0 99 0 101]. "'Greece'" Good luck with your coding. Sven
