Re: string vs. char [was Re: Java and Unicode]

2000-11-20 Thread Antoine Leca
Marco Cimarosti wrote: Actually, C does have different types for characters within strings and for characters in isolation. That is not my point of view. There is a special case for 'H', that holds int type rather than char, for backward compatibility reasons (such as because the first

Re: string vs. char [was Re: Java and Unicode]

2000-11-20 Thread Marco Cimarosti
Antoine Leca wrote: Marco Cimarosti wrote: Actually, C does have different types for characters within strings and for characters in isolation. That is not my point of view. There is a special case for 'H', that holds int type rather than char, for backward compatibility reasons (such

Re: string vs. char [was Re: Java and Unicode]

2000-11-20 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: "Marco Cimarosti" [EMAIL PROTECTED] the Surrograte (aka "Astral") Planes. I believe the UTC has deprecated the term Astral planes with extreme prejudice. HTH! michka a new book on internationalization in VB at http://www.i18nWithVB.com/

Re: string vs. char [was Re: Java and Unicode]

2000-11-20 Thread David Starner
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 06:54:27AM -0800, Michael (michka) Kaplan wrote: From: "Marco Cimarosti" [EMAIL PROTECTED] the Surrograte (aka "Astral") Planes. I believe the UTC has deprecated the term Astral planes with extreme prejudice. HTH! The UTC has chosen not use the term Astral Plane.

Re: string vs. char [was Re: Java and Unicode]

2000-11-20 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
ot; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 20, 2000 7:18 AM Subject: Re: string vs. char [was Re: Java and Unicode] On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 06:54:27AM -0800, Michael (michka) Kaplan wrote: From: "Marco Cimarosti" [EMAIL PROTECTED] the Surrograte (aka "Astral") Plan

Re: string vs. char [was Re: Java and Unicode]

2000-11-20 Thread John Cowan
David Starner wrote: I chose Astral Planes for perceived grace and beauty. Thank you! -- There is / one art || John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] no more / no less|| http://www.reutershealth.com to do / all things ||

[totally OT] Unicode terminology (was Re: string vs. char [was Re: Java and Unicode])

2000-11-20 Thread Marco Cimarosti
David Starner wrote: Sent: 20 Nov 2000, Mon 16.18 To: Unicode List Subject: Re: string vs. char [was Re: Java and Unicode] On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 06:54:27AM -0800, Michael (michka) Kaplan wrote: From: "Marco Cimarosti" [EMAIL PROTECTED] the Surrograte (aka "Astral&

Re: string vs. char [was Re: Java and Unicode]

2000-11-20 Thread addison
Hi Jani, I dunno. I oversimplified in that statement about exposing vs. hiding. ICU "hides" the facts about the Unicode implementation in macros, specifically a next and previous character macro and various other fillips. If you look very closely at the function (method) prototypes you can see

Re: string vs. char [was Re: Java and Unicode]

2000-11-20 Thread Mark Davis
ormation. Mark - Original Message - From: "Michael (michka) Kaplan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Unicode List" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 20, 2000 06:54 Subject: Re: string vs. char [was Re: Java and Unicode] From: "Marco Cimarosti" [EMAIL PROTEC

RE: string vs. char [was Re: Java and Unicode]

2000-11-17 Thread Marco Cimarosti
Addison P. Phillips wrote: I ended up deciding that the Unicode API for this OS will only work in strings. CTYPE replacement functions (such as isalpha) and character based replacement functions (such as strchr) will take and return strings for all of their arguments. Internally, my

RE: string vs. char [was Re: Java and Unicode]

2000-11-17 Thread Marco Cimarosti
Ooops! In my previous message, I wrote: wchar_t * _wcschr_32(const wint_t * s, wchar_t c); wchar_t * _wcsrchr_32(const wint_t * s, wchar_t c); What I actually wanted to write is: wchar_t * _wcschr_32(const wchar_t * s, wint_t c); wchar_t * _wcsrchr_32(const wchar_t * s, wint_t c); Sorry if

Re: string vs. char [was Re: Java and Unicode]

2000-11-17 Thread addison
for example. Mark - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Unicode List" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 13:24 Subject: string vs. char [was Re: Java and Unicode] Normally this thread would be of only academic interest to me... ...bu

RE: string vs. char [was Re: Java and Unicode]

2000-11-17 Thread addison
Well... I think you're right. I knew that char and string units weren't really the same thing. My concern was how to make it easy on developers to use the Unicode API using their "native intelligence". More thought makes me less certain of my approach. Specifically, as Mark points out, looping

string vs. char [was Re: Java and Unicode]

2000-11-16 Thread addison
Normally this thread would be of only academic interest to me... ...but this week I'm writing a spec for adding Unicode support to an embedded operating system written in C. Due to Mssrs. O'Conner and Scherer's presentations at the most recent IUC, I was aware of the clash between internal

Re: string vs. char [was Re: Java and Unicode]

2000-11-16 Thread Mark Davis
: Thursday, November 16, 2000 13:24 Subject: string vs. char [was Re: Java and Unicode] Normally this thread would be of only academic interest to me... ...but this week I'm writing a spec for adding Unicode support to an embedded operating system written in C. Due to Mssrs. O'Conner and