[M3devel] Windows, Unicode file names

[Dragiša Durić]

This is one place where insisting on some imagined/future purity (fully compatible withyour argument - thread safety + immutability + non-quadratic performance) will lead to unreasonable fragmentation and de-facto gray area in CM3 and it's usage.

I am only one of people here who de-facto uses TEXT's to hold UTF8 content. And while we all think/talk about solution, every single user who needs international characters and wants to use them in sensible way - will go same way.

Then, some "proper" CM3 solution comes and what happens? We rewrite everything to support it? Or ignore it?

On Jun 27, 2012, at 1:14 PM, Dragiša Durić wrote:

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> On Jun 27, 2012, at 12:19 PM, Jay K wrote:
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>>  > More and more is obvious how ideal structure would be: ARRAY OF CHAR, UTF8 encoded, using SRC M3 Text.Hash().
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>> I don't quite agree.
>> There are two ideal approaches.
>> 1)
>>   TEXT is like ARRAY OF CHAR and no values over 0xFF (or maybe even 0x7F) 
>>   "WiDETEXT" is like ARRAY OF WIDECHAR, for 16bit or 32bit WIDECHAR 
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> So we can have two representations for single thing: variable holding some text. And representation depends on a question "do you need non-basic-english-characters"?
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