Re: sizeof(char) == 1 may yeald false


Subject: Re: sizeof(char) == 1 may yeald false
From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Jun 03 2001 - 02:17:41 CDT


Aaron Lehmann wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 02:08:40AM +0100, rms@greymalkin.yi.org wrote:
> > Only when char is not a two byte char.
> >
> > Do not assume char to be 1 byte ;), for instance, in our friendly oriental chars users' case.
>
> char is defined to be 1 byte.

Don't worry, CJK "characters" are understood to require one or more
"char".
This is okay in our string classes.

Multibyte issues only come into play when you're randomly accessing
individual characters inside a string.

Andrew.

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