UTF-8 library

Axel Simon A.Simon@ukc.ac.uk
Wed, 7 Aug 2002 11:03:40 +0100


On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 02:54:47AM -0700, Ashley Yakeley wrote:
> At 2002-08-07 02:43, Axel Simon wrote:
> 
> >But the point was that C might have different sized characters and that 
> >these functions would still be portable even if the size of CChar changes. 
> 
> Text encoded with ISO 8859-1 or UTF-8 is octets. If you want to use 
> CChars, you should then subsequently convert the Word8s into CChars.
Then I hope there is no C implementation where char is less than 8 bits 
long.

Axel.