From: Shawn Rutledge <lists@ecloud.org>
To: 9fans <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Why does utfutf() exist?
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2025 10:53:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BCC16A4B-CD61-45EB-B8D0-277D9064BDC2@ecloud.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2ae07915-6e27-49f6-9424-d3eacc73e9e7@posixcafe.org>
> On Dec 17, 2025, at 22:17, Jacob Moody <moody@posixcafe.org> wrote:
>
> I've been poking at some of the utf* functions lately and utfutf is a bit puzzling.
> At face value, strstr() should be sufficient for handling utf8 encoded strings just as strcmp() is.
Maybe normalization could be the reason: there can be multiple representations, for example, ü might be one code point (Unicode: U+00FC, UTF-8: C3 BC), or might be u with a combining umlaut. I would assume converting to a rune would turn out the same either way: then you can compare them even if the haystack is represented one way in utf8 and the needle is the other way. (Disclaimer: I’m not a unicode expert, even less so on 9)
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-12-17 21:17 [9fans] Why does utfutf() exist? Jacob Moody
2025-12-18 9:53 ` Shawn Rutledge [this message]
2025-12-18 15:50 ` quiekaizam via 9fans
2025-12-18 17:13 ` Jacob Moody
2025-12-18 20:16 ` Rob Pike
2025-12-18 20:48 ` Jacob Moody
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