Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 11:43:21AM +0200, Albe Laurenz wrote:
>> IMHO this is the only good and intuitive way for CHR() and ASCII().
>
> Hardly. The comment earlier about mbtowc was much closer to the mark.
> And wide characters are defined as Unicode points.
>
> Basically, CHR() takes a unicode point and returns that character
> in a string appropriately encoded. ASCII() does the reverse.
>
> Just about every multibyte encoding other than Unicode has the problem
> of not distinguishing between the code point and the encoding of it.
> Unicode is a collection of encodings based on the same set.
>
> Have a nice day,
Thanks for the feedback. Would you say that the way I implemented things in the
example code would be correct for multibyte non Unicode encodings? I don't see
how to avoid the endianness issue for those encodings.
mark