Unicode and C++ (GCC 4.0)

[Christian Parpart]

On Thursday 04 August 2005 17:00, Eljay Love-Jensen wrote:
> Hi everyone (and especially Benjamin Kosnik if you are listening),
>
> I have a stupid C++ question.  I've spun my wheels for days on this issue.
>
> I've been lost in a morass of std:: ... basic_istream, basic_ostream,
> basic_istringstream, basic_ostringstream, locale, facet, and codecvt.

I'm really a fool regarding Unicode/UTFx issues, however, some things I noted 
are below:

> class Utf8Char
> {
>   uint8_t m;
> public:
>   explicit Utf8Char(char in) : m(in) { }
>   operator uint8_t () const { return m; }
> };

a UTF-8 character may (sometimes) be even 16bit of size; think about german 
umlauts, they get escaped somehow, and then follows the code for them.

> class Utf16Char
> {
>   uint16_t m;
> public:
>   explicit Utf8Char(char in) : m(in) { }
>   operator uint16_t () const { return m; }
> };

This really can't work either. Did you get this compile? You obviousely 
copy'n'paste-ed your 16/32-Char classes from the Utf8Char class and didn't 
change the constructor (btw).

Sorry for not being much help more, but you could/shoult google for "encoding" 
and have a look around for some other implementations / how they're doing it 
(the en[/de]coding-way).

Regards,
Christian Parpart.

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