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Using Unicode in embedded software

March 1, 2010 2 comments

Unicode provides a single character set that can represent nearly all of the world’s written languages. Mainstream software development has largely moved to Unicode already, helped by the fact that in modern languages such as Java and C#, type char is defined to be a Unicode character. However, in C a char is invariably 8 bits on modern architectures, and the associated character set is ASCII. Does this matter, for embedded software? Read more…

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