Re: [Foxgui-users] unicode character has 5 digits

[Roland H. <ro...@lo...>]

On 7/8/2025 7:57 AM, je...@fo... wrote:
> Thanks for this wonderful background.  32-bit wide characters would
> indeed incur enormous bloat, but thankfully, it seems UTF8 encoding
> is brilliantly leaving most european langauges very close to 1-byte
> per characters; even people in Korea, Japan, and China, UTF8 is never
> bigger than 32-bit wide characters, but all punctuation, numbers, etc.
> is mercifully as short as 1 byte.
>
> Now RAM and DISK space is cheaper than ever, but the biggest problem
> was always software.  UTF8 also makes software *mostly* able to deal
> with wide characters w/o undue pain and suffering. 

Since I work mostly with embedded systems I've been working on a fork of 
CopperSpice (which is a fork of Qt 4.8 sans QML). One of the many things 
on my never ending TODO list is replace all of the QString classes with 
BdString classes based on UTF8-CPP.

https://github.com/nemtrif/utfcpp?tab=readme-ov-file

I just need to make certain the Boost 1.0 license is compatible.

https://github.com/nemtrif/utfcpp/blob/master/LICENSE

If you are going to pop the hood on strings, you probably want to look 
at that library. I don't remember if Fox is UTF-16 under the hood or 
pure UTF-8.

Yes, UTF-8 has won. Both wide strings and UTF-16 have proven failures. 
Microsoft and a lot of legacy products are trapped with UTF-16.

Too bad embedded systems customers don't like the old Motif look and 
feel Fox has.

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