Re:Tell HN: C Experts Panel – Ask us anything about C
by rseacord on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @02:58PM
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Going to try to answer these separately. For (1) if you mean strings that are primitive types my guess is never. When had an hour discussion on this topic at a London meeting where we were discussing new features for C11 and my take away was that this would never happen because it would require a significant change to the memory model for the language.
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Re:Tell HN: C Experts Panel – Ask us anything about C
by rurban on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @03:30PM
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For the u8 type sure. Nobody needs a new type.
But at least add wcsnorm and wcsfc as I implemented them in the safeclib are required. Not even coreutils, grep, awk, ... can search unicode strings.
And u8 library variants of str* and wcs* are definitely needed, maybe just with uchar* not char*.
Re:Tell HN: C Experts Panel – Ask us anything about C
by DougGwyn on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @06:30PM
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Why would the utilities not handle unicode searching? Unicode characters match properly, the null terminator works the same, and non-ANSI codes are just one or more random 8-bit values which can be compared, copied, etc.