Re: [Cppunit-devel] Toward True Unicode Code... Help requested

[Baptiste L. <gai...@fr...>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Duane Murphy" <dua...@ma...>
To: "Baptiste Lepilleur" <gai...@fr...>; "CppUnit Developers"
<cpp...@li...>
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 1:37 AM
Subject: Re: [Cppunit-devel] Toward True Unicode Code... Help requested


> --- At Mon, 15 Apr 2002 23:32:29 +0200, Baptiste Lepilleur wrote:
>
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Duane Murphy" <dua...@ma...>
> >To: "CppUnit Developers" <cpp...@li...>
> >Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2002 7:35 PM
> >Subject: Re: [Cppunit-devel] Toward True Unicode Code... Help requested
> >
[...]
> I hope I understand the question. If I output a string that includes a
> '\n' in a stream, and some other process is parsing that stream, will
> '\n' be unique?
>
> The answer is yes! I was equally stunned to here this. Once a shift
> character is seen that identifies that following characters as unicode,
> then none of the bytes that are part of that unicode "character" will be
> less than 128! This is what makes UTF-8 work. All characters <128 are
> always ASCII!

Great, that means even ouputters relying on that are compatible with UTF8
(CompilerOutputter which as some line wrapping code).

Baptiste.