Re: [AL] Unicode string length

[Shawn <ado...@gm...>]

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 12:54:18 +1000, Peter Wang <tj...@oz...> wrote:
> 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.

The Allegro functions, on the other hand, are more portable and often
have features that the libc functions don't have and are easier to
code with...at least in my experience...