Re: [AL] How to get a Windows XP message window with Allegro/MinGW

[N. R. <no...@co...>]

Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz wrote:

>On 2004-10-26, "N. Roy" <no...@co...> wrote:
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>>Unicode is okay, but I am seeing some drawbacks.  The size of a
>>string of unicode isn't the same as the number of characters in it,
>>which leads to problems allocating space.  I needed to allocate the
>>maximum size possible, six times the number of characters allowable.
>>Of course my old code didn't do this so I had some overflows in
>>a few places that drove me nuts trying to track down.  I tell ya,
>>I was really cursing unicode earlier today! heheh
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>Don't use U_UTF8 then, use U_UNICODE which is two bytes per
>character.  The reason U_UTF8 is the default is because messages
>using 7 bit only ASCII characters are forward compatible with utf8,
>and thus old Allegro games using English messages show up correctly
>with the new versions without changes to the code.
>  
>

    Great, thanks for clarifying that for me.  I was considering using 
another format with a fixed number of bytes but I wasn't sure how many 
bytes there would be and which to choose.  U_UNICODE is two bytes, 
perfect, that's not too bad at all.

    I'm curious, under which circomstances would U_UTF8 ever need six bytes?

    Thanks in advance.

-- 
Neil Roy

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