Question

Why is C's support for Unicode very weak?

Answer 1

because UNICODE was not popular in that time, and C refused to update yourself!

:D :D :D

Answer 2

UNICODE was not popular ?? really ?? whe was C created ?

Answer 3

C was developed in 1969-1973, and UNICODE standard was launched in October 1991.

Answer 4

In these days memory was very limited

Answer 5

Guess I should learn C++ if I ever want to get unicode :(

Answer 6

yup

Answer 7

Unicode presents problems for C and C++ in that the char data type is one byte. Unicode 8 can fit in an unsigned byte, it has 256 possible values. Unicode 16 needs two bytes, which is why C has the wide character data type.

When C was written, the standard encoding was ASCII ( American Standard Code for Information Interchange ). At that time, ASCII had 127 values defined.