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This is all scaring me a bit ... just as I was thinking that dealing with
text was easier than bit twiddling! I may need to scurry back into debugging
DCOM protocols.... perhaps I will just keep using Java chars in blissful
ignorance until some terrible calamity occurs :-)
Jonathan
> Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
>
> > It could be worse, though. You could be using C, and trying to decode
> > UTF-8. :-)
>
>
> ?? It's about 10 lines of code, and has been written lots of
> times now. Last time I needed it I couldn't find one with the
> exact buffer interface I needed so I coded it up from scratch
> sometime in the course of an afternoon and it worked first time.
> The spec is hardly unclear. And it's a set of shift/mask
> operations that are processor-friendly. You need to use a
> loop iterator rather than a for (i = 0; string[i]; i++) idiom,
> big deal.
>
> UTF8 only really causes extra work when you want per-character
> addressing into big strings, because then you need an indirect
> table - the most common case I can think of is maintaining
> on-screen render state.
>
> But in most apps it's more common to point into text at a
> few places (tags, word-starts, search matches) in which case
> you needed that indirect array anyhow.
>
> Conclusion: somewhat to my surprise, I find that for a lot
> of C tasks, you can keep your text in UTF-8 and work with
> it that way very efficiently.
>
> Elliote is right about the irritating fact that a Java
> "char" isn't an XML character. The nasty fact is that
> I suspect many Java application programmers will end up
> simply blowing off non-BMP text either through ignorance
> or based on a decision that it's not cost-effective. -Tim
>
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