15 Jan
2011
15 Jan
'11
2:35 a.m.
On 01/14/2011 02:05 PM, Peter Dimov wrote:
John B. Turpish wrote:
By the way, I disagree with Peter's assessment that, "you rarely, if ever, need to access the Nth character," but I will gladly cede that this depends on your problem domain.
It obviously depends on the problem domain :-) but, when talking about Unicode, you can't reliably access the Nth character, in general, even with UCS-32. (As far as I know.) I don't understand. UCS-32 (I assume you meant encoded as UTF-32) is a fixed width encoding so the n-th character is just 4n away from the beginning of the string. Right?
Patrick