Re: [Openexr-devel] RE: UNICODE support in openexr file I/O

[Paul Miller]

Santiago wrote:
> No, UTF-8 is not at all enough.... I said I want to use Kanji, not 
> karakana or hiragana.... That means I need to use one of the 16-bits 
> "strange" signs.... Can't conver to UTF-8 because I will loose "bits"... 
> Kanji CAN'T be translated to out latin alphabet, because each sign means 
> an "object", are NOT letters, so I need to enter the 16/32bits unicode. 
> And who says Kanji says cyrilic or other signs... YOu , because are 
> almost english talkers, are not at all conscient of the difficulties 
> saving/naming files. For a japanese, is weird to be forced to name a 
> file autoexec.bat and not $%!$"&!W%343.$!&... So no, UTF8 is not enough, 
> nust be UTF16 or better to use one of the universal signs.

Any UTF-16 string can be encoded as UTF-8. Obviously, you would convert 
your UTF-16 strings to and from UTF-8 when working with the OpenEXR library.

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