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[Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx>]

I was referring to UCS-2 or UCS-4.  I’m evidently behind the times, though, because I now see that UTF-32 and UCS-4 are equivalent.

(Which means that both some of John’s original premises and my quote in teal below were wrong: UTF32 is indeed a one:one map between code points and chars.)

So my proposal (in 2019) should be std::u32string (using UTF32 encoding, for which myString[3] still works).

Better?

Cheers,
Jeff.

PS: I was last in deep with this stuff during the early days of PDF & Acrobat — which was 30 years ago. ;)


> On 30 Apr 2019, at 18:05, Seth Hillbrand <seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Am 2019-04-30 12:49, schrieb Jeff Young:
> 
>> You are correct that you also can’t do it with UTF32 strings, but
>> I’m not suggesting those.  I’m suggesting *unicode* strings.
>> That’s 1 code-point per character.  So myString[3] still works.
> 
> Sorry Jeff, I'm being slow here and must be missing an important point.  I had thought that unicode was encoded by UTF-8, UTF-16, etc.  But it sounds like you a referring to something different.  Is there a good place to look for more information on the specific encoding you are suggesting?
> 
> -Seth