First Impressions

[Georg Wrede]

Derek Parnell wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 03:03:02 +0300, Georg Wrede wrote:
> 
>>As long as you don't start tampering with the individual octets in 
>>strings, you should be just fine. Don't think about UTF and you'll prosper.
> 
> The Build program does lots of 'tampering'. I had to rewrite many standard
> routines and create some new ones to deal with unicode characters because
> the standard ones just don't work.

Do you still remember which they were?

> And Build still fails to do somethings
> correctly (e.g. case insensitive compares) but that's on the TODO list.

Yes, case insensitive compares are difficult if you want to cater for 
non-ASCII strings. While it may not be unreasonably difficult to get 
American, European and Russian strings right, there will always be 
languages  and character sets where even the Unicode guys aren't sure 
what is right. Unfortunately.