From: Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Vladimir Prus <ghost@cs.msu.su>,
gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: printing wchar_t*
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 13:59:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <443FA5D4.7040901@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060414130729.GB12955@nevyn.them.org>
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 03:55:49PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Anyway, UTF-16 is a variable-length encoding, so wchar_t is not it.
>
> There's a rant about this in the glibc manual I was just reading...
>
> In fact, on many platforms, wchar_t is only 16-bit. How exactly you
> handle UTF-8 or UCS-4 input in this case, I don't really understand.
Seems clear, you can only represent a limited range of codes if you
only have 16 bits!
UTF-8 is a variable length encoding that can represent any character
in the 32-bit range. Obviously if you have to construct wchar_t
values from UTF-8 input, then you will not be able to represent
characters whose codes exceed 65535. Same with UCS-4.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-14 13:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-13 17:07 Vladimir Prus
2006-04-13 17:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-04-14 7:29 ` Vladimir Prus
2006-04-14 8:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-04-14 12:47 ` Vladimir Prus
2006-04-14 13:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-04-14 13:06 ` Vladimir Prus
2006-04-14 13:15 ` Robert Dewar
2006-04-14 13:17 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-04-14 13:59 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
2006-04-14 14:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-04-14 14:08 ` Paul Koning
2006-04-14 14:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-04-14 15:00 ` Vladimir Prus
2006-04-14 17:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-04-17 7:05 ` Vladimir Prus
2006-04-17 8:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-04-13 18:06 ` Jim Blandy
2006-04-13 21:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-04-14 6:02 ` Jim Blandy
2006-04-14 8:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-04-14 7:58 ` Vladimir Prus
2006-04-14 8:07 ` Jim Blandy
2006-04-14 8:30 ` Vladimir Prus
2006-04-14 8:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-04-14 12:52 ` Vladimir Prus
2006-04-14 13:07 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-04-14 14:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-04-14 14:29 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-04-14 14:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-04-14 17:10 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-04-14 17:55 ` Jim Blandy
2006-04-14 18:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-04-14 18:30 ` Jim Blandy
2006-04-14 19:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-04-14 14:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-04-14 14:50 ` Vladimir Prus
2006-04-14 17:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-04-14 18:03 ` Jim Blandy
2006-04-14 19:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-04-14 19:22 ` Jim Blandy
2006-04-14 22:18 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-04-16 11:39 ` Jim Blandy
2006-04-16 15:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-04-15 7:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-04-17 7:16 ` Vladimir Prus
2006-04-17 8:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-04-17 10:35 ` Vladimir Prus
2006-04-17 12:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-04-17 13:56 ` Vladimir Prus
2006-04-18 5:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-04-14 19:53 ` Mark Kettenis
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