Unicode and chunk expressions

Dar Scott dsc at swcp.com
Tue May 17 19:46:44 EDT 2005


On May 17, 2005, at 11:57 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> The app I'm working on for that makes extensive use of chunk 
> expressions -- am I back to the old-school-language methods of walking 
> through every character to parse it?

I had suggested UTF-8.  Other folks have had success with htmlText.

However, if you have to consider other types of white-space that just 
tab, ASCII space and lf, then you may have to go  through each 
character (2 chars worth) at a time.  And Unicode has just about 
anything you can think of.

Dar

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