Re: [Draft] Writing i18n apps with glibc 2.2
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 10:56:30PM +0800, Isaac Kar-Keung To wrote:
> >>>>> "Roger" == Roger So <rogerso@sis.dhs.org> writes:
>
> Roger> No, the point I was making was, say you have 0x20 0xD0 0xF6 (a
> Roger> space followed by some Big5 character). First you check
> Roger> isprint(0x20); that succeeds, so you move on to isprint(0xD0).
> Roger> Oops, 0xD0 is not printable. But MB_CUR_MAX = 2. So we check it
> Roger> now with 2 bytes together ... isprint(0xD0F6) ... great, that's
> Roger> printable, and we move on to the next byte ...
>
> I get it now. Yes, rather inefficient. Maybe another point for doing
> everything in UCS-4.
Another classic case of space-time tradeoff I guess ...
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