On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 7:05 PM, Warren Young <wyml at etr-usa.com> wrote: > On Feb 12, 2016, at 4:42 PM, Scott Robison <scott at casaderobison.com> wrote: >> >> I find it kind of interesting that Microsoft takes a lot >> of (deserved) flack for not adhering to standards, yet UTF-8 came about >> specifically because some didn't want to use UCS-2 > > ?for good reason. UCS-2/UTF-16 isn?t compatible with C strings. I know you > know this, but it?s a huge consideration. Outside of Mac OS Classic and a > few even smaller enclaves, C and its calling standards were the lingua franca > of the computing world when Unicode first came on the scene, and those > enclaves are now all but gone. > > We?ll be living with the legacy of C for quite a long time yet. Until C is > completely stamped out, we?ll have to accommodate 0-terminated strings > somehow. >
and Go. Which is purely UTF8. > > Simple and straightforward. > > Too bad it will never happen. > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users at mailinglists.sqlite.org > http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
