From: Peter W. <tj...@oz...> - 2004-10-26 02:54:30
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N. Roy wrote: > I think I'll be using unicode from now on though, I like the idea > of being able to allow anyone in the world to use their own characters > and whatnot. Allegro has really impressed me in this regard, nice > work to those who added the unicode functions. Actually, unicode is a lot more complicated than what Allegro would lead you to believe. Allegro's "unicode" functions are really just multi-byte character handling. If you use the UTF-8 encoding for all your strings, most of the time you don't need to use Allegro's ustr* functions either, as the libc str* functions will do the job. Peter |