Why is C's support for Unicode very weak?

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anonymous · Answer

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

anonymous · Answer

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

anonymous · Answer

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

anonymous · Answer

In these days memory was very limited

anonymous · Answer

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

anonymous · Answer

yup

rsmith6559 · Answer

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.