Re: Surrogates and character representation Per Bothner 28 Jul 2005 00:06 UTC
John.Cowan wrote: >Per Bothner wrote: > > Random accesses to a position in a string that has not > > been previously accessed is not in itself useful. > > Another use case, archaic as it may seem, is still important: processing > fixed-length fields in text files. Such applications are probably not using Unicode ... In Unicode-land, the concept is pretty meaningless: are you talking about (1) a fixed display width (number of columns) - if so the numbers of "characters" (or bytes") is unrelated to the display width; or (2) a fixed number of bytes in a file - if so immediately fire anybody who writes any new applications doing this! (And "legacy" applications will not support Unicode.) -- --Per Bothner xxxxxx@bothner.com http://per.bothner.com/