Re: 8-bit chars in @""
Re: 8-bit chars in @""
- Subject: Re: 8-bit chars in @""
- From: "Erik J. Barzeski" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 13:25:02 -0500
Hi,
That answers it well enough for me, guys. Thanks. I appreciate it.
Douglas Davidson <email@hidden> tapped out:
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On Wednesday, March 20, 2002, at 09:16 AM, Erik J. Barzeski wrote:
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>> Yup. Do believe the documentation and don't use them.
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>
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> Why? It works fine. So that's the meat of the question... Why does it
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> work
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> when it say it shouldn't? Why shouldn't it just work the same as
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> NSString's
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> unicode support? Why only support 7-bit characters?
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The essence of the problem, as I understand it, is that by using 8-bit
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characters in string constants in your code, you place yourself at the
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mercy of the compiler's handling of string encodings, which may be
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compiler-dependent. It may work now, but it is still a good idea to
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avoid compiler dependencies wherever possible.
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>
Douglas Davidson
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Kindest regards,
Erik J. Barzeski
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