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Re: Unicode support [message #180995 is a reply to message #180979] Tue, 02 April 2013 17:59 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
M. Strobel is currently offline  M. Strobel
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Am 30.03.2013 15:33, schrieb The Natural Philosopher:
> On 30/03/13 13:25, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>
>> The same issue exists with characters outside the BMP in ECMAScript
>> implementations which uses 16-bit characters (usually one UTF-16 code unit
>> per character). But you can work around that rather efficiently.
>>
>
> The problem become 'what do you mean by strlen()' - the space the characters will
> occupy in an constant width font, or the storage allocated to the string?
>
> Mostly we are concerned with the latter.
>
> Because lack of precision in font reproduction, or even in guaranteeing which font
> may be selected, renders the former an 'open' question.
>
> strlen('€')===3 is in fact the correct answer.
>

strobel@suse123-acer:~> tclshi
% set eur "€"

% string length $eur
1
% string bytelength $eur
3
%

Languages have to catch up.

/Str.
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