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By: jan

jan — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 17:56:13 +0000

wchar_t is not portable:

“The width of wchar_t is compiler-specific and can be as small as 8 bits. Consequently, programs that need to be portable across any C or C++ compiler should not use wchar_t for storing Unicode text. The wchar_t type is intended for storing compiler-defined wide characters, which may be Unicode characters in some compilers.”

By: programmer.laik

programmer.laik — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:44:20 +0000

http://mm.soldat.pl/inspirado/surviving-2008
“Meditation solves this problem, refreshes my mind and gives a thousand other benefits. Sleep isn’t so good for refreshing my mind.”
Pleeease, my masta;P

By: m!nus

m!nus — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 15:24:07 +0000

So what happened to UTF-8?

By: FinDude

FinDude — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 09:31:58 +0000

“The number of Chinese characters contained in the Kangxi dictionary is approximately 47,035, although a large number of these are rarely used variants accumulated throughout history.”

Yey for Wikipedia.

2.1 billion? Overkill, much?

By: MM

MM — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 08:01:58 +0000

programmer.laik: Meditation?:) Could you remind me the context?

Alink: So how much do these Asian languages have characters?

By: Hacktank

Hacktank — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 02:56:14 +0000

Let the “#define PORT_WCHAR_T unsigned short int” abstraction commence!

By: Alink

Alink — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 16:14:03 +0000

The problem is that you need more than 65535 characters (2 bytes) to render all languages, especially for the Asian ones. See Unicode planes.

I recently had the inverse problem when porting from linux to windows. The code was about handling cleanly word wrapping for CJK languages (where the separation of words/letters is different) and the special cases were about 4 bytes characters, but windows wchar_t chocked on it.

By: programmer.laik

programmer.laik — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 15:36:59 +0000

OFFTOPIC
MM I’m waiting for youre article(s) about meditation!