> Are your strings Unicode strings, or some other character set? I'd be
> inclined to call them FT_UNICODE if they're just Unicode (and perhaps
> change FT_STRING to FT_ASCII, although, in practice, the 8-bit character
> strings might be in other 8-bit character sets, e.g. various other ISO
> 646 character sets, or ASCII supersets such as the ISO 8859/n character
> sets, or multi-byte character ASCII supersets such as the EUC character
> sets, or...).
This is indeed better. I think the most important ones are:
- FT_ASCII ( 7bit )
- FT_ISO_8859
- FT_UNICODE
- FT_UTF8
UTF8 is, I believe, used widely in Java, so I suppose that any Java
initiated communication (RMI?) wil use it too. An it also opens a
whole can of worms, because the characters are not fixed length. From
what I have read sofar it can be anything between 1 and six bytes :-(
>From a book about ASN.1 I also got several other ITU-T and ISO related character sets, but
most of them are just limited ASCII or very obsolete.
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Andreas Sikkema
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