Unicode, Set up for MC 2.4.3 on Mac OS9.1?

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

on 4/7/03 7:34 PM, Charles Yeomans at yeomans at desuetude.com wrote:

>>>> But I wonder, what you say about this way:
>>>> 
>>>> -- We simply add 2 more languages for String and Text fields.
>>>>         "UTF-8" and "UTF-16"
>>>> 
>>>> -- at least for 1.x version.
>>>> 
>>>> -- for UTF16, if you say VarChar[504] then
>>>>         GetMaxStringLength() will return 257 chars.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> what GetMaxStringLength() will return for UTF8?
>> 
>> :-) good question.
>> 
>> Well, I think it is correct to return 504,
>> Because this is MAXIMUM possible number.
>> But we can have less chars also.
> 
> 
> I think that MaxLength should return the length in bytes, as it always
> has. 

No, you mean GetBytes(), this function really will return 504.

In fact I have confuse you,
function GetMaxText() exists only in C++

> If Valentina will be computing the length of UTF-8 text, then
> perhaps that value could be stored and returned in a new function
> CharCount. Otherwise, since the developer will be choosing the format,
> it's reasonable to let him worry about computing the character count,
> especially for UTF-8 text, for which this is an O(N) operation.

Yes, may be this is not deal of Valentina ...

Again, in c++ deeply in kernel, I use it to know what buffer pre-allocate.

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Best regards,
Ruslan Zasukhin      [ I feel the need...the need for speed ]
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