From: Ed (ed.trager@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Nov 22 2010 - 14:53:08 CST
Glad to see Ken's advice here about avoiding macros, avoiding wchar_t,
and using typedefs to define types with exact widths ... I especially
had always wondered what one was supposed to do with the "wchar_t"
type ...
- Ed
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Kenneth Whistler <kenw@sybase.com> wrote:
>
> Well, some may disagree with me, but my first advice would be
> to avoid macros like that altogether. And second, to absolutely
> avoid any use of wchar_t in the context of processing Unicode
> characters and strings.
>
> If you are working with C compilers that support the C99 standard,
> you can instead make use of the stdint.h exact-width integer
> types. And then you should *typedef* Unicode code unit types
> to those exact-width integer types.
>
> uint8_t  <-- typedef your UTF-8 code unit type to this
>
> uint16_t  <-- typedef your UTF-16 code unit type to this
>
> uint32_t  <-- typedef your UTF-32 code unit type to this
>
> ... < ... SNIPPED ... > ...
>
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