Re: [TFUI] internationalization

Ron Jeffries <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.programming.test-first-user-interfaces
Organization XProgramming.com
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tuesday, July 6, 2004, at 6:29:07 PM, Phlip wrote:

> Parenthetically, Microsoft is pushing for everyone to
> run VS8 in Unicode mode (yes, folks, compiling C++
> from UTF-16 instead of ASCII the way dieties
> intended). You'd be amazed how they shriek when you
> recommend to put raw escape codes into your strings.

Actually, if anyone's characters are going to be 16 bits, we'd be better of
if everyone's were.

Of course we'd be even better off still if characters were real objects
instead of those weird half-bunned things.

Ron Jeffries
www.XProgramming.com
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