On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 03:13:56PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> Enrico Forestieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Not really. UCS-4 code points from 0x0000 to 0x00ff exactly correspond
> > to latin-1 code points. So
> >
> > unsigned char c = 0xb5;
> > os.put(c);
> >
> > gives me a 'ยต' character, and the assertion above is wrong.
> > Maybe you have utf8 in mind.
>
> We should not have a method that interprets raw characters as latin1.
> So we should either
>
> 1/ find some way to forbid passing 8bit chars to <<
> or
> 2/ only allow the ascii range, like Abdel proposed.
I don't understand either points. Why
char_type c = 0xb5;
os.put(c);
would be ok, but
unsigned char c = 0xb5;
os.put(c);
would not?
--
Enrico
