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Working with UTF-8 in the kernel

Working with UTF-8 in the kernel

Posted Mar 28, 2019 18:29 UTC (Thu) by Sesse (subscriber, #53779)
Parent article: Working with UTF-8 in the kernel

Does utf8byte() actually return the next _byte_? That's a strange decision. Wouldn't the right choice normally be either to return a _code point_, or, if implementing the Unicode Collation Algorithm (UCA), the next _weight_?

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Working with UTF-8 in the kernel

Posted Mar 29, 2019 9:32 UTC (Fri) by grawity (subscriber, #80596) [Link]

I'm somewhat disappointed it wasn't called utf8rune().


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