(Incomplete) Unicode in C++

• A Crash Course in Unicode for C++ Developers - Steve Downey - [CppNow 2021]

  • Best text handling is not to

  • std::u8string is not Python str

  • utf-16: originally they though 16 bits would be enough for everyone (someone also said 640K would be enough)

  • still used as internal Windows and Java representation

  • utf-32 never used, but often used internally to represent code points

  • Normalization: comparing two texts that are the same but under a different representation

    Bad: there is one code point to represent “Ä”, but it can alos be represented by “A” and one “modifier” that puts two points over preceding character.

• Applying the Lessons of std::ranges to Unicode in the C++ Standard Library - Zach Laine CppNow 2023