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He may be right, but approximately 75% of the problems he describes are all Microsoft-ecosystem specific. In Unix-land we don't use wchar_t or UTF-16, and his
by PaulDavisThe1st 2y ago
He may be right, but approximately 75% of the problems he describes are all Microsoft-ecosystem specific.
In Unix-land we don't use wchar_t or UTF-16, and his article is a good demonstrations of why not.
- pjmlp 2y agoUNIX land is even worse in international languages support. As in, there isn't even something on POSIX at the level other operaring systems support for localisation. Yes there is some locale stuff, however not enough for all stuff, hence why every modern programming language happens to have this as part of their standard library.
- PaulDavisThe1st 2y agoWhen the notion of what a "string" is differs so much from language to language, i18n is never going to be an effective part of POSIX.
- account42 2y agoIs there a platform where you can't use ICU?