[M3devel] INTEGER

[Jay K]

For the record, anyone using Windows (NT/2000/XP/2003/etc.) is using 16bit characters *all the time*.

MacOSX maybe also.

I think utf8 is kind of a hack to let folks get away without really doing anything.

Granted, I didn't realize till recently that strcmp works on utf8..maybe a really clever idea..

 

  - Jay
 
> Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 11:57:02 -0400
> From: hendrik at topoi.pooq.com
> To: m3devel at elegosoft.com
> Subject: Re: [M3devel] INTEGER
> 
> On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 12:59:01PM -0700, Mika Nystrom wrote:
> > 
> > And the new m3tk, stubgen, and compiler(?) won't compile using PM3 or
> > SRC M3 since we're no longer using the language of the Green Book.
> > (Same comment goes for WIDECHAR, by the way.)
> 
> When I use Unicode characters, I find myself defining them to be 
> INTEGERs, because I'm always worried that WIDECHARs might be omly 16 bits.
> 
> Strings of WIDECHARS are probably unnecesary. The last program I wrote 
> that used Unicode used INTEGERs for characters, and arrays of INTEGERS 
> for strings. But I think it was a mistake to do it this way, and when I 
> have time I'll rewrite it. UTF-8 seems to be the way to go; strings of 
> Unicode can easily be manipulated as ordinary TEXT. In fact, I 
> think there are few if any places in my code where I would have had to 
> do anything special whatsoever if I had just used UTF8 in TEXT. The 
> program would simply become simpler.
> 
> -- hendrik
 		 	   		  
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