On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 09:14, Jerome BENOIT <jgm...@rezozer.net> wrote: > Hello List, > > I am writing some C code which involves ASCII characters: > in C related books, we can find a lot of comments about > ASCII character issues, as far as we are concern with portability. > > Nevertheless, something bothers me: where non-ASCII environment can be found > ? > > Furthermore, can such an environment be created on a Debian box ? > The aim is to check the portability of my code.
Well, Unicode, specifically the UTF-8 encoding, is generally the standard for modern Linux systems. Of course, as long as you are using only characters that are in ASCII, UTF-8 is compatible... There is also GB 18030, China's Unicode encoding, but again, it is ASCII compatible. The Win32, .NET and Java platforms all use UTF-16/USC-2 (it's complicated) natively, which is not ASCII and is not ASCII compatible. Joel's Unicode article is from 2003, but still very useful: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html Some good essays from Tim Bray: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/04/06/Unicode http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/04/13/Strings http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/04/26/UTF http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/04/30/JavaStrings Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/n2r1840f6971004091329hd85a6b26vf1b296d5f189b...@mail.gmail.com
