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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 2d ago
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So even on weird platforms where char is a 32 bit type, sizeof (char) is 1, right? I can't remember.
2 u/AnnoyedVelociraptor 2d ago FYI char in Rust is 32-bits, maximum size of a UTF-8 character 1 u/Xirdus 1d ago Rust's char stores UTF-32, not UTF-8, but yes. 1 u/AnnoyedVelociraptor 1d ago I did some more reading, and I wonder if it is more correct that Rust encodes Unicode Scalars as char? 1 u/Xirdus 1d ago Technically speaking, the spec says char represents Unicode scalar, with actual encoding unspecified. The spec requires that char is 4 bytes and has the same ABI as u32, but that's it. In practice, it's UTF-32.
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FYI char in Rust is 32-bits, maximum size of a UTF-8 character
1 u/Xirdus 1d ago Rust's char stores UTF-32, not UTF-8, but yes. 1 u/AnnoyedVelociraptor 1d ago I did some more reading, and I wonder if it is more correct that Rust encodes Unicode Scalars as char? 1 u/Xirdus 1d ago Technically speaking, the spec says char represents Unicode scalar, with actual encoding unspecified. The spec requires that char is 4 bytes and has the same ABI as u32, but that's it. In practice, it's UTF-32.
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Rust's char stores UTF-32, not UTF-8, but yes.
1 u/AnnoyedVelociraptor 1d ago I did some more reading, and I wonder if it is more correct that Rust encodes Unicode Scalars as char? 1 u/Xirdus 1d ago Technically speaking, the spec says char represents Unicode scalar, with actual encoding unspecified. The spec requires that char is 4 bytes and has the same ABI as u32, but that's it. In practice, it's UTF-32.
I did some more reading, and I wonder if it is more correct that Rust encodes Unicode Scalars as char?
char
1 u/Xirdus 1d ago Technically speaking, the spec says char represents Unicode scalar, with actual encoding unspecified. The spec requires that char is 4 bytes and has the same ABI as u32, but that's it. In practice, it's UTF-32.
Technically speaking, the spec says char represents Unicode scalar, with actual encoding unspecified. The spec requires that char is 4 bytes and has the same ABI as u32, but that's it.
u32
In practice, it's UTF-32.
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u/mckenzie_keith 2d ago
So even on weird platforms where char is a 32 bit type, sizeof (char) is 1, right? I can't remember.