[M3devel] INTEGER

[hendrik at topoi.pooq.com]

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 09:20:00PM +0000, Jay K wrote:
> 
> 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..

utf8 was a really clever idea.  Unless you need to isolate specific 
characters and do something with them, most code manipulating text 
needn't care whether it's UTF8 or not.

-- hendrik