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 5:28 PM
Subject: Re: [Cppunit-devel] Toward True Unicode Code... Help requested


> --- 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
> >
> >
> >> --- 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.

You understood the question well. It's me who did not have all my head when
I answered. Indeed I insert '\n', which make it not UTF8 compatible. This is
an issue that will need to be addressed in the future.

Thanks,
Baptiste.

>
>  ...Duane
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