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Re: accessing individual characters in unicode strings

Peter Robinson schrieb:
Dear list
I am at my wits end on what seemed a very simple task:
I have some greek text, nicely encoded in utf8, going in and out of a
xml database, being passed over and beautifully displayed on the web.
For example: the most common greek word of all 'kai' (or και if your
mailer can see utf8)
So all I want to do is:
step through this string a character at a time, and do something for
each character (actually set a width attribute somewhere else for each
character)
As John already said: UTF-8 ain't unicode. UTF-8 is an encoding similar
to ASCII or Latin-1 but different in its inner workings. A single
character may be encoded by up to 6 bytes.

I highly recommend Joel's article on unicode:

The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively
Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html

Christian
Jun 27 '08 #1
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