On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 2:17 PM, David Niemeijer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to be able to display the number of characters to the user in a way > that makes sense to them. If they see 3 I should report 3. I also need it to > cut-off certain input to the number of "real" characters and should not > generate results that only make sense for a language like English where each > 16 bits equals a single character.
Perhaps more information on why this is a requirement would be helpful. Since it's apparent that you're going to be dealing with languages other than English, there won't be only one set of rules for you to follow. For example, in Dutch, IJ is one letter. In Spanish, you might treat ll and ch as one letter or not, depending on which region you're using and whether you're performing collation or just counting the number of letters. If you can explain why counting characters is important to your app, we might be able to help you better. --Kyle Sluder _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
