Monthly Archives: May 2011

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

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

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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