That should have been _30_ years ago string manipulation functions didn't exist.
NSString may have been Unicode-aware (I've never used Objective-C), and I believe that even the early Javas supported multibyte strings, but at that time most business and consumer desktop applications in the Windows world were still written in C/C++. Do you remember when the Euro symbol became common? I'm pretty sure that character alone was responsible for much of the push to support Unicode.
NSString may have been Unicode-aware (I've never used Objective-C), and I believe that even the early Javas supported multibyte strings, but at that time most business and consumer desktop applications in the Windows world were still written in C/C++. Do you remember when the Euro symbol became common? I'm pretty sure that character alone was responsible for much of the push to support Unicode.