Oh, no! The Lowest-level* Programming Language is Unicode-aware...
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Claim: Unicode can be added to C, not just promised. Work uses a homegrown library that implements conversion functions and a standards prototype, plus emails to PL22.16 and proposal patches, after about three years of effort. Evidence includes a demo of handling mojibake, citing ~97.6% UTF‑8 web penetration yet persistent name-handling failures, and partial adoption of the proposals so far — the library works and some fixes are entering the standards conversation.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:23C as lowest-level lingua franca
- 2:26Locale-specific behavior problems
- 4:29Legacy encodings and UTF-8 limits
- 6:54Real-world text handling failures
- 7:57C standard Unicode limits
- 9:00Proposing C Unicode support
- 10:49Future goals and challenges
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