On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Mark Slee <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Isn't a utf8 type redundant since utf8 can be sent as a string? > > This depends what languages you're working with. Many languages in-built > string types make working with Unicode very awkward and will do character set > conversions by default. > > Take a look at the "binary" Thrift type. Should work here. > > Cheers, > mcslee
Ahh. I've never had trouble with c# but imo c++ would benefit from having some proper utf8 support baked in. Chris
