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From:
Dan Sugalski
Date:
December 31, 2001 06:44
Subject:
Re: Large string patch
Message ID:
5.1.0.14.2.20011231094401.021628c0@pop.sidhe.org
At 09:55 PM 12/30/2001 -1000, David & Lisa Jacobs wrote:
>From: "Dan Sugalski" <dan@sidhe.org>
> > We do still need to address the byte-orientation of the strings. Throwing
>a
> > single null byte on the end's not enough for buffers that have 16 or 32
>bit
> > characters.
>
>Agreed. I'll probably have the encoding structure provide the terminating
>bytes. As a side note don't we also have to split UTF-16 into UTF-16BE and
>UTF-16LE (big endian and little endian)?
I think UTF-16 can be a single encoding. The little/big endian issue can be
dealt with by an I/O filter.
Dan
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