| From: | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> |
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| To: | mark(at)mark(dot)mielke(dot)cc, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Gregory Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, andrew(at)supernews(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Fixed length data types issue |
| Date: | 2006-09-08 21:03:38 |
| Message-ID: | 20060908210338.GO5479@svana.org |
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On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 04:49:49PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Actually he muttered something about iterators, and not needing to
> convert anything.
Yes, many of the useful functions accept strings in two forms, either
UTF-16 or CharacterIterators. The iterator pretty much only has to know
how to step forward through the string and return the code point at
each point.
Here's the docs for C++ class, but there's a equivalent C interface.
http://icu.sourceforge.net/apiref/icu4c/classCharacterIterator.html#_details
Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
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