RE: UNICODE from a WinTel box
RE: UNICODE from a WinTel box
- Subject: RE: UNICODE from a WinTel box
- From: "Kenny Millar" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 10:00:41 -0000
<snip>
> > (3) It may be the case where the developer cannot include the BOM
> > (e.g. other clients of the service would start failing if
> the data is
> > prefixed with the BOM). Could you thus assume that if no BOM is
> > included that the data is of a particular endianess?
>
> I'd probably just jump straight to #3... the first two
> solutions seem like they have the potential for huge "ripple
> effects" to the existing system, which could make new bugs
> for little benefit.
>
I'm the team lead on this particular dev project, including both Mac and
Windows sides. (Having been a Windows developer for some 10 years+) The
solution we have went with is to include the BOM, and since we are at an
early stage in development, this has worked well for us. Both our windows
and Mac clients (as in software, not people) are now working well. We'd
prefer not to use UTF8 since all our windows code (and it's huge) is UTF-16
- we don't use narrow charcter strings as a matter of course.
[RANT ON]
At this point, I feel the need to make a personal note....
Having studied SmallTalk at the Open University as recently as 2005, and
developed a VERY strong hatred of SmallTalk because of a very poor IDE
called 'Learning Works'. Having struggled with it for months, and eventually
passing the course I still knew NOTHING about SmallTalk.
Then when I saw Cocoa and discovered it's SmallTalk connection, I cringed
but thought, what the hey, I'll give it a go. So I got the 'Learning
Objective-C with Cocoa' book from the Apple Store (the ADC Recommended
title). I struggled through the book and found it tedious and not very
enlightenning, (in fact down right confusing) and so gave up on Cocoa for
another few months. Eventually I gave in to all the hype about how powerful
Obj-C is tried to get to grips with it again. This time I bought Aaron
Hillegas's most excellent "Cocoa programming for Mac OS X" and almost
immediately everything started to fall into place. Now I really like
Cocoa/Obj-C.
It's amazing how just getting the right book can make such a big difference.
With the ADC title I found the whole thing about control-dragging in IB very
confusing, the book does not make it clear what's going on. The Aaron
Hillegas book on the other hand makes it sound simple, and also tells you
what's going on under the hood.
[RANT OFF]
-Kenny
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