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Good day!
Pardon my newbieness (oooh boy am I a Newbie) but I have a few questions concerning Unicode. I've been following up on the discussions for the past week or so, so I'm starting to get a feel for Unicode. I still have tons of questions. here are just a few...
- How does using non-spacing characters like "^" interact with say an "e" to form a "�"? Does the � suddenly become 32 bits long? Being a French Canadian, I need to know these things. (Why are accented characters "separated" from the rest (being non-spacing chars) instead of being incorporated as distinct characters within the spacing chars? This is not a play on Qu�bec politics is it? ; ) )
- Okay, I think I know the difference btw UTF-8 (good) and UTF-8S (bad), but what is the difference btw UTF-8, 16 and 32? Why would one want to use one instead of the other? If I have hardware that only 8 bit chars, should I use UTF-8? How do I tell my VC++ compiler to do that?
- Can someone give me good links to programming VC++ 6.0 with Unicode? Are there books on the subject?
Thanks for your patience
Pascal Maheu
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