Utf-8 in c++: quick & dirty tricks

Question

I am aware that there are been various questions about utf-8, mainly about libraries to manipulate utf-8 \'string\' like objects.

However, I am working on an \'internati

Answer 1

We handle it also like this in OpenLieroX (which is really fine in a game I think).

We have a bunch of useful functions/algorithms for such UTF-8 std::strings. See Unicode.h and Unicode.cpp. For example, there are UTF8 iterators, some simple manipulation operators (insert or erase), upper/lower case conversions, case independent search, etc.

But don't expect those functions to be always correct. For example, they don't know really about combining diacritics or possible different ways to encode the same text.