From: "Brian Catlin" <brianc@sannas.org>
Subject: Bytes per character (was Re: An OS in Ada, why not RTEMS ?)
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 11:52:59 -0700
Date: 2002-04-29T18:53:09+00:00 [thread overview]
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"sk" <noname@myob.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.1020051003.12089.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org...
[...snip...]
>
> Do you expect this to put the character 'H' on the screen ?
>
> I think of storage elements as bytes, with bytes and characters
> being synonymous.
Seems sort of short-sighted to me; it works fine for ASCII/ANSI characters, but
what about the rest of the world? Unicode uses 2-4 bytes per character, which
makes dealing with it a little difficult in terms of dealing with strings, but
at least you can represent just about any "character" in virtually any language.
-Brian
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Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-26 20:58 An OS in Ada, why not RTEMS ? sk
2002-04-28 7:45 ` James Ross
2002-04-28 11:18 ` sk
2002-04-28 21:48 ` James Ross
2002-04-28 23:12 ` Nick Roberts
2002-04-29 2:29 ` sk
2002-04-29 5:48 ` James Ross
2002-04-29 12:09 ` Sergey Koshcheyev
2002-04-30 5:33 ` James Ross
2002-04-30 15:59 ` Sergey Koshcheyev
2002-04-29 18:52 ` Brian Catlin [this message]
2002-04-29 22:15 ` Bytes per character (was Re: An OS in Ada, why not RTEMS ?) sk
2002-04-29 23:28 ` chris.danx
2002-04-29 22:51 ` sk
2002-04-28 21:13 ` An OS in Ada, why not RTEMS ? Nick Roberts
2002-04-29 0:34 ` James Ross
2002-04-29 5:19 ` Simon Wright
2002-04-30 6:53 ` James Ross
2002-04-30 16:03 ` Sergey Koshcheyev
2002-05-01 22:24 ` Simon Wright
2002-04-30 8:49 ` Why not MaRTE was " Alfred Hilscher
2002-04-30 14:08 ` sk
2002-05-07 2:22 ` Nick Roberts
2002-05-12 16:35 ` Freddy
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