Re: Plea for the support of unicode escape sequences

[Javier Guerra Giraldez <javier@...>]

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 7:20 AM, David Given <dg@cowlark.com> wrote:
> Which is why, of course, people should not be using UCS-2 or UTF-16 for
> anything. In fact, I'd suggest not using UCS-4 either --- it encourages
> shortcuts in handling Unicode that aren't actually valid, like assuming
> you can split strings anywhere. UTF-8 FTW.

+1

i have some faint memories that windows got some time ago a new set of
UTF-8 API functions that any application can use instead of the old
'widechar' ones.  is that true?  (of course that wouldn't mean UCS-2
is anywhere closer to the painful death it deserves)

-- 
Javier