From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Wide_[Wide_]Character
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 10:11:38 +0200
Date: 2008-07-12T10:11:42+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <lv8778vm2w8k$.1n437e635ut8v$.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: MrNoSpam-A54511.17443812072008@news-server.bigpond.net.au
On Sat, 12 Jul 2008 07:44:38 GMT, Dale Stanbrough wrote:
> Unicode can be represented using UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32 (amongst
> others).
>
> I gather that Character is simply ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1).
>
> I suspect that Wide_Character is UCS-2 (simple 2 byte values, no escapes
> like UTF-16).
>
> Is Wide_Wide_Character
>
> * UTF-16
> * UTF-32 (i.e. UCS-4)
> * System dependent
> * Something else
RM 3.5.2 talks about "code positions" (=code points, I guess), represented
by Wide_Wide_Character. From this I conclude that it shall be UCS-4 with
some implementation-defined endianness.
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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-12 7:44 Wide_[Wide_]Character Dale Stanbrough
2008-07-12 8:11 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2008-07-12 11:00 ` Wide_[Wide_]Character Dale Stanbrough
2008-07-12 11:27 ` Wide_[Wide_]Character Peter C. Chapin
2008-07-12 12:25 ` Wide_[Wide_]Character Georg Bauhaus
2008-07-15 12:37 ` Wide_[Wide_]Character Dale Stanbrough
2008-07-15 14:06 ` Wide_[Wide_]Character Georg Bauhaus
2008-07-12 20:56 ` Wide_[Wide_]Character Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-07-12 10:11 ` Wide_[Wide_]Character anon
2008-07-12 10:58 ` Wide_[Wide_]Character Dale Stanbrough
2008-07-13 1:38 ` Wide_[Wide_]Character anon
2008-07-22 19:18 ` Wide_[Wide_]Character Adam Beneschan
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