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Re: ANN: Gorille 0.3

• To: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• Subject: Re: ANN: Gorille 0.3
• From: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...>
• Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 23:46:22 -0700
• Cc: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>, xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: Message from Tim Bray <tbray@t...> of "Thu, 10 Jan 2002 12:22:32 PST." <3C3DF808.1020801@t...>
• Sender: uche.ogbuji@f...

> Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
> 
> > It could be worse, though. You could be using C, and trying to decode 
> > UTF-8. :-)
> 
> 
> ?? It's about 10 lines of code, and has been written lots of
> times now.  Last time I needed it I couldn't find one with the
> exact buffer interface I needed so I coded it up from scratch
> sometime in the course of an afternoon and it worked first time.
> The spec is hardly unclear.  And it's a set of shift/mask
> operations that are processor-friendly.  You need to use a
> loop iterator rather than a for (i = 0; string[i]; i++) idiom,
> big deal.

I was about to post the same reaction.

I do want to add, though, that the last time I needed to code UTF-8 routines in C, I found the UTF-8 illustration in Tony Graham's book so lucid as to make implementation a tea-time task.

And BTW, I wigh you had not brought up wchar_t, because that dredges up memories of all the horror in wchar.h, and last thing I need is a case of saffron hives.


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