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Re: printf functions fail with non-ascii characters
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Re: printf functions fail with non-ascii characters


  • Subject: Re: printf functions fail with non-ascii characters
  • From: "John H. Jenkins" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 11:52:10 -0600


On Sep 6, 2007, at 5:59 AM, Alastair Houghton wrote:

On Windows, such code will only work assuming you stick to UCS-2 (and that will make a lot of people in China and Japan quite cross because many peoples' names require characters outside the BMP... to get some idea of how annoying that is, imagine if everyone called you "Potor" because they couldn't type a letter "e").

Well, more accurately, "some people." The extent of this problem has been greatly exaggerated.


FWIW, I'm not aware of any non-BMP Han ideograph required for personal names. Place names, yes, but not personal names.

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References: 
 >printf functions fail with non-ascii characters (From: "William H. Schultz" <email@hidden>)
 >Re: printf functions fail with non-ascii characters (From: Peter Mulholland <email@hidden>)
 >Re: printf functions fail with non-ascii characters (From: Alastair Houghton <email@hidden>)
 >Re[2]: printf functions fail with non-ascii characters (From: Peter Mulholland <email@hidden>)
 >Re: printf functions fail with non-ascii characters (From: Alastair Houghton <email@hidden>)

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