TDPL reaches Thermopylae level

Leandro Lucarella llucax at gmail.com
Tue Oct 27 17:22:29 PDT 2009


Bill Baxter, el 27 de octubre a las 13:12 me escribiste:
> > They are?
> >
> > ...Then what is the point of wstring, dstring?
> 
> They are all just different representations of Unicode.
> 
> string, which is unicode in UTF-8, is good because it's the least
> wasteful for mostly ASCII text.  And has a nice ASCII backwards
> compatibility story.
> 
> dstring, which is unicode in UTF-32, is good because you have one
> element = one character.  So it's good for doing substring and other
> text manipulations.
> 
> wstring, which is UTF-16, is good because it lets you call Windows
> Unicode functions.
> 
> Here's Daniel Keep's nice explanation:
> http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dtqh79k_1rbxfmb

And here is a nice artible about Unicode and encodings:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html

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