Re: [gobo-eiffel-develop] UTF-16LE

[Colin P. A. <co...@co...>]

>>>>> "Emmanuel" == Emmanuel Stapf [ES] <Emmanuel> writes:

    Emmanuel> Not when I see conversions in UC_STRING. Agreed the code
    Emmanuel> is not in UC_STRING, but what I'm saying it should not
    Emmanuel> even mention it. You have the UC_UTF16_ROUTINES class
    Emmanuel> for that and I think it will be better left there.

How?

This is impossible. You cannot in general determine what the encoding
of a string is.

    >> -----Original Message----- From: Colin Paul Adams
    >> [mailto:co...@co...] Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007
    >> 9:53 AM To: ma...@ei... Subject: Re: [gobo-eiffel-develop]
    >> UTF-16LE
    >> 
    >> >>>>> "Emmanuel" == Emmanuel Stapf [ES] <Emmanuel> writes:
    >> 
    >> >> The Unicode Consortium decide these matters, not us.
    >> 
    Emmanuel> I'll let you decide, just wanted to give you my input on
    Emmanuel> what I think should not be part of UC_STRING but part of
    Emmanuel> a separate class that does conversion to and from
    Emmanuel> verious encodings. UC_STRING should be like STRING_32,
    Emmanuel> i.e.  immune of any encodings.
    >>  It is immune.  -- Colin Adams Preston Lancashire
    >> 


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Colin Adams
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