Re: Wide character support enabling

On Friday 17 February 2006 09:06 pm, Raymond Martin wrote:
> So a nice bunch of glue code is needed for portable string implementation.
Yes.

Another option is to use the facilities of the c library
without reference to unicode. Basically it means that
you get as good i18n support as the os offers.
By default one writes text files using the locale encoding, whatever it is.
For portability reasons, one might also want to write text files in UTF8,
but this problem is slowly disappearing because everybody 
is slowly transitionning to UTF-8 locales anyway.

So I believe that we only would have to write a small string
library that does the basic string operations using
the wide character interface from the c library.
There are some little performance issues (counting character positions)
that might benefit from a reasonable caching scheme.

> One implementation is ICU (http://icu.sf.net), by IBM...

Too big to my taste.

- L.




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