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		pjc50 on May 6, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Turkish İ Problem and Why You Should Care (201... C doesn't have a string data type, let alone a locale-aware one. No, the Microsoft LPCWSTR madness doesn't count.

NooneAtAll3 on May 6, 2025 | [–]

because C doesn't make types aware, but functions?

https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/string/multibyte

pjc50 on May 6, 2025 | [–]

Yes. And the C type system isn't rich enough to represent "do not pass this type of string into this function".

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