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

[Duane M. <dua...@ma...>]

--- At Tue, 16 Apr 2002 13:51:54 +0200, Baptiste Lepilleur wrote:
>----- 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
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>> --- 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).

I want to make sure that this question is properly understood. If you are
just searching for '\n' in a stream or string then that will work fine.
If you are looking to insert '\n' (or any other characters) at some
position then things get complicated.

 ...Duane

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