Re: Format of string output of a socket server

Well... think I am more confused now than when I asked the question ;)

I am talking about what the server will send. I am getting from these
comments that sending bytes (char) is OK. Basically a string response I
would send would be eg "my response\r\n" - ie byte chars followed by
carriage return line feed. I am supposing this is OK.

What for example does your standard POP3 server send? ASCII text just like
I am saying here?

The client program can then convert to Unicode or whatever they see fit?

Angus


"Alexander Nickolov" <agnickolov@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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UNICODE is the only sane choice of course. However, don't
confuse with the Windows meaning of UNICODE which is
really only the UTF-16 representation of UNICODE. I'd
suggest you use UTF-8 representation of UNICODE to avoid
byte-ordering issues on the network. What you return to
your clients is up to you - you just need to do the appropriate
format conversion (e.g. MultiByteToWideChar to get UTF-16
for example).

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"Angus" <nospam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello

I am writing a socket server to deliver telephony events to clients on a
network. For example the telephony server might send out text to
connected
clients. Clients might be written in C/C++, Java, Visual Basic,
anything
in
fact which can talk to a socket.

My socket server is currently sending out char* . Do I have to worry
about
the format of string output? Should I be outputting Unicode? Some
other
format? Or would a C/C++ char* be OK? Will eg Java understand it? Do
they
use UTF-8 or something?

Angus






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