20 Jan
2011
20 Jan
'11
2:47 p.m.
On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 06:30:48 -0800 (PST) Artyom <artyomtnk@yahoo.com> wrote:
I may be wrong, and I hope I am. If a character is guaranteed never to consist of more than X code-points, it would be simple to offer a fixed-width character type, even if the width is huge by comparison to the eight-bit char type. But from what I've seen, I don't think that's the case.
I assume there is some limit but who know which?
Even in Hebrew (the language I speak) you can easily create a letter with 4 code points: [...] And Hebrew is relatively simple one. [...] So I would suggest not assume that there is a certain limit.
<sigh> Yes, that's what I pretty much expected. -- Chad Nelson Oak Circle Software, Inc. * * *