Re: Problem with using char* to return string by reference

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Hendrik Schober wrote:
There is, however, one problem with all this:
'std::basic_string<>' was not designed for multi-byte
encodings. Therefor, when you put multi-byte encoded
strings into it (and if we're talking Unicode, except
for UTF-32 all encodings are multi-byte, since Unicode
specifies >2^16 characters), you're on your own.

Indeed, the situation is very complicated:
http://d-type.com/layout/index.htm

Consider bi-directional caret and selection handling in Arabic and Hebrew, ligature reordering substitutions in Hindi/Telugu, etc.

Tom
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