Re: Language Setup Document (Re: Text drawing bug - gaps after 16th character ...)

[Kazunobu Kuriyama]

Pete French wrote:

> > I used 'multi-byte' in a usual sense in C.  That is another concept
> > different from encoding, although they are working together almost
> > all the time. Basically, there's no dependency between them.
>
> The 'ususal sense' to me is "takes more than one byte' - so C3 A8
> is mutibyte in UTF-8 encoding, but single byte in ASCII encoding.
You can't use the term 'multi-byte' in that sense.  Don't overlook the 
phrase 'in C',
by which I mean the ISO C standard together with ISO2022.  The 
implication of
'usual sense' is too complicated to describe it here in brief...
 
So please avoid discussing it based on your own interpretation, leading 
you to wrong
viewpoints and conclusions.

I'm afraid what you observed with Russian characters is irrelevant to 
the multibyte
representation. Actually, as you noted, each of them is represented with 
8-bit.

- KK