On Jan 17, 2009, at 5:37 AM, Bryan Jurish wrote:
morning all,
On 2009-01-15 22:51:14, Hans-Christoph Steiner hans@eds.org
appears to have written:As for the simple question of unsigned versus signed for
any2string, I have never heard of using negative values for chars, so it makes
perfect sense to me to use 0-255. That'll will give at least the full latin charset.OK. I guess I'll make unsigned values the default for [any2string] then, postponing the issue of name change to [any2bytes] rsp. [bytes2any] to a hypothetical future in which the "string" suffix implies unicode or other non-byte-oriented representation.
Well, C considers a collection of 0-127 values a string. I think most
programming languages would call an collection of 8-bit ASCII bytes a
string. I think "string" makes more sense than "bytes" here.
.hc
marmosets, Bryan
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