Re: Unicode string handling

"Roger Binns" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mobile.bitpim.devel
Message-ID <001601c65eb5$8415f1c0$3501a8c0@rogersqyvr14d3>
> Out of the 350+ terminators defined in the phones so far only about 9% are
> characters, the rest are 0 or non-character codes e.g. 0xA, and this is not
> counting STRINGs without explicitly defined terminators that use the default
> 0.
> 
> I don't think it is worth the time to code and debug the ability to use
> characters *and* integers as terminators.

Changing them all to characters/strings would make the most sense.
It is generally bad offering too much choice since that makes
it easier for bugs to exist in the code, and makes more codepaths
to maintain.

Roger


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