Re: Is there a Unicode equivalent to ASCIIZ Stings?

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On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 11:59:57 -0500, Joseph M. Newcomer
<newcomer@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

But in UTF8 you *must* use CharNext and CharPrev to advance one character at a time.

Yes, I am (and was) aware of this.
In fact, in my opinion, one of the "bad things" of UTF-8 was the
negation of "one character, one position" (the "good thing" was saving
space for characters storage).

On the other side, I thought that in UTF-16 I could assume "one
character-one position", but this thread showed me I was in error (but
so why the UTF-16? Use UTF-8 instead, as previously written).

Mr Asm
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