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[denarced]

okay
after coming to the conclusion that ICU pretty much sucks ..

What are the alternatives ?
I'd like to join the rest of you coders who somehow manage to use UTF-8 in your programs ..
There must be other libraries besides ICU .. what are they ?

[Aereshaa]

I use a jumble of quick hacks, which I've put into functions. Eventually I'll need to sort it out, but an easy hack that I use the most is implementing an & escape like in html. In other words, printf(utf("&3042")); prints "あ".

[denarced]

Aereshaa said:

I use a jumble of quick hacks, which I've put into functions. Eventually I'll need to sort it out, but an easy hack that I use the most is implementing an & escape like in html. In other words, printf(utf("&3042")); prints "あ".

hmm .. interesting .. thanks .. could be a useful piece of information some day ..