Unicode

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Mon May 4 16:39:14 EDT 2015


Peter Haworth wrote:
 > Does toUpper/toLower work?  Similarly, does the setting of
 > caseSensitive work OK when comparing textDecoded strings?
 >
 > Can I use char references, e.g. char x to y of tVar or offset, or
 > do I need to use byte x to y, byteOffset?

Character is safer for strings since it accounts for multi-byte 
characters.  Byte is useful only when working with raw binary data in 
which you can know in advance the number of bytes you need to deal with.

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  Richard Gaskin
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