7 Nov
2017
7 Nov
'17
1:34 a.m.
char (at least these days) is signed. So really, it's 7-bit ASCII.
I've been bitten by the 7-bit ASCII thing when it comes to modern
character sets. unsigned char gets tiresome ;)
On 11/6/2017 7:25 PM, Ron Natalie wrote:
I believe one of C’s biggest failings is that they did not solve the
schizophrenic definition of char*.
Char* as historically implemented and then CODIFIED in the C and C++
standards is both the basic character type as well as the smallest
addressable unit of storage.
Thiswas all peachy keen in the 8 bit ASCII days (and even earlier
alternative character sets such as EBCDIC, and its predecessors and
other historical character sets like UNIVAC’s fielddata_), but fell
apart when we started into the 16 bit and larger UNICODE._
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_We needed a basic memory type that had sizeof == 1 (which void*) did
not meet and release char from having to play double duty._
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