Re: Want Input boxes to accept unicode strings on Standard Window

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Mihai N. wrote:

XML does not require big parsers, it requires Unicode support.
If your own parser recognizes UTF-16 and UTF-8, you are compliant.
Parsers are not required to understand encodings other than the two UTF forms
mentioned.

Hi Mihai:

What does this mean exactly? My own parser, which seems to work fine for my purposes (serialization), simply writes std::string to and from XML. Why does it need to understand UTF-8?

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David Wilkinson
Visual C++ MVP
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