[Asterisk-Dev] IAX spec: Text formats and character sets

[Steve Underwood]

Kevin P. Fleming wrote:

> Michael Giagnocavo wrote:
>
>> Well, what if you use wide chars? UTF-8 is great for a 
>> common-denominator,
>> on-the-wire format, but it's less than ideal for manipulation. With wide
>> chars with you can use wcsncpy and the rest of the wc* functions. 
>
>
> That is also a good point; when we are just storing/retrieving strings 
> but not actually doing anything with them then UTF-8 is fine, but I've 
> not yet seen string manipulation functions in glibc (or comparable) 
> that supported UTF-8.

Its not a good point at all. Its totally irrelevant. The topic was how 
should the *wire* protocol be defined.

Regards,
Steve