Category Archives: Unicode

A code point iterator adapter for C++ strings in UTF-8

Posted on May 30, 2011 by Ángel José Riesgo

As the last post in this series I’ve been writing on Unicode and UTF-8, I thought I would elaborate on an interesting idea I mentioned in my previous post. When discussing how a std::string object that stores UTF-8 text is … Continue reading →

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Using UTF-8 as the internal representation for strings in C and C++ with Visual Studio

Posted on May 6, 2011 by Ángel José Riesgo

In today’s long post, I’m going to explain the guidelines we follow at Retibus Software in order to handle Unicode text in Windows programs written in C and C++ with Microsoft Visual Studio. Our approach is based on using the … Continue reading →

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Character encodings and the beauty of UTF-8

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Ángel José Riesgo

我愛 UTF-8 أحِبّ In my previous blog post, I discussed what was needed to ensure that a web site uses the UTF-8 character encoding consistently. I thought I should write a post on why I think UTF-8 is superior to … Continue reading →

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Thanks for signing up, Mr. González – Welcome back, Mr. González!

Posted on April 4, 2011 by Ángel José Riesgo

In my previous post in the blog, I mentioned my frustration about those programs that surprisingly fail on Unicode support and encoding issues. I thought I should write a post about this because it never stops to amaze me how, … Continue reading →

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