Re: Anybody working on ISO/IEC 15435 (i18n.h)?

[Keld Jørn Simonsen <keld@xxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 12:52:55PM +0100, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Kai Henningsen writes:
> > NOTE: the above is not yet a standard.
> > 
> > See: http://anubis.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc22/wg20/docs/n612.{txt,doc,ps}
> 
> It would be helpful to have some standardized API in this direction. But
> that particular draft doesn't cut it: 1. Its string datatype doesn't
> distinguish NULL and "" - a distinction which is essential in languages
> such as C, C++, Lisp, Java. 2. There is no easy way to convert between
> string and wchar_t*.

There is a new draft in:
http://anubis.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc22/wg20/docs/n714.pdf
I believe your concerns have been addressed there.

Keld
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