UTF-16 and C/C++ language

UTF-16 and C/C++ language

TANAKA Keishiro EBLE Markus

18th International Unicode Conference

Hong Kong, April 2001

Contents l Why do we need UTF-16 in C/C++ ? l How to support UTF-16 in C/C++ l Practical experiences l Question period

18th International Unicode Conference

Hong Kong, April 2001

Why do we need UTF-16 in C/C++?

Classic Client-Server Architecture

Client

Client

AppServer

Client

AppServer

Database

Each client wants to use his native language and script

18th International Unicode Conference

Hong Kong, April 2001

Why do we need UTF-16 in C/C++? Typical B2B Collaborative Systems

Database

Finance

Human Ressource

B2B

Business Partner

How to communicate between different companies ?

18th International Unicode Conference

Hong Kong, April 2001

Why do we need UTF-16 in C/C++?

Ok, let's use Unicode. But which encoding shall we use ?

Considering: ? Integration with the existing Unicode products ? Migration of existing non-Unicode products ? Performance and memory consumption

18th International Unicode Conference

Hong Kong, April 2001

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