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We live in the future now. It is OK to use Unicode everywhere. It seems bizarre to me that modern Internet services sometimes "forget" that there's a world outside the Anglosphere. Some people have the temerity to speak foreign languages! And some of those languages have accents on their letters!! Even worse, some ā¦
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Got the ā» symbol into #Unicode.
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Longer hair than you.
Got the ā» symbol into #Unicode.
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@Edent unless I have missed something, it is a shame we donāt have a newer ctype.h that can take a char* and isalpha a utf8. You need a similarly low level (that I end up writing myself every time) next char function and so on.
Now tell me I have missed a universal utf8.h that has existed for decades?!?!
My guess though is nothing as light weight as ctype.h though, sadly.
Personally I would mostly be happy to consider anything >= 0x80 as an ongoing identifier character.
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I tend to agree. You can't really write modern applications in a language like C which doesn't really grok unicode.
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