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List:       freedesktop-dbus
Subject:    Re: DBus API problems & UTF-8
From:       Ross Burton <ross () burtonini ! com>
Date:       2006-06-12 12:39:59
Message-ID: 1150115999.5982.29.camel () localhost ! localdomain
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On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 13:47 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> If you're not already using UTF-8 in your C program, then its at most one 
> single method call to convert. Unless your strings are absolutely enourmous
> the performance hit of the conversion shouldn't show up as a large hotspot.
> In any case this is a small price to pay for cross-application interoperability. 

Don't forget that if you can safely assume that all strings you'll be
dealing with are ASCII, then you don't need to do anything as UTF-8
contains the ASCII character set.

Ross
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