Re: UTF-8 encoding vs UTF-32
- Posted by LarryMiller Aug 12, 2014
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Euphoria's sequences give it the ability to store UTF-32 character strings and perform some basic functions with them. But real world applications need more. There comes a time when an application must accept Unicode data from outside itself and be able to present it to the outside world. Euphoria has no native ability to do any of those things. Due to the storage inefficiency UTF-32 is rarely used for files. At the present time UTF-8 is most commonly used so some conversions will be necessary.
There are Euphoria include files available (not part of the official distribution) that can do some of these things. To do serious Unicode programming you will need some understanding of the more common Unicode encodings. The system functions available in Linux and Windows will likely be necessary as well.
