Glyphs and graphemes [was Re: Cult-like behaviour]

Rhodri James rhodri at kynesim.co.uk
Mon Jul 16 16:11:25 EDT 2018


On 16/07/18 20:51, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> I use UTF-8 in my C programs and sense no disadvantage. I have never
> felt a need for wchar_t.

That's not a good comparison, though, because wchar_t in C really 
doesn't give you much (if any) advantage over rolling your own UTF-8 
support, even when that means making sure you don't split characters 
across buffers.

-- 
Rhodri James *-* Kynesim Ltd



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