On Mon, Apr 27, 2009, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 03:49:04PM -0400, David Schultz wrote: > > ...but isn't this moot at present because there are no > > widely-accepted encodings that include characters that > > aren't supported by UCS-4? Citrus doesn't seem to support > > any such encodings in any case. > > "Just" using UCS-4 not necessarily buys you the desired affect. > Keep in mind that UCS-4 is still a variable width encoding, as soon as > you factor combining characters and some other interesting parts in.
This is true, but unfortunately C99 wasn't really designed to support combining characters. I don't understand how this relates to the present discussion. _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
