N3366 - Restartable Functions for Efficient Character Conversions has made it into the C2Y Standard (A.K.A., “the next C standard after C23”). And one of my longest struggles — the sole reason I actually came down to the C Standards Committee in the first place —

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The Pasture

N3366 - Restartable Functions for Efficient Character Conversions has been accepted into the upcoming C2Y Standard, culminating a long struggle to improve text conversion functions in C and C++. The author recounts their journey through the C and C++ Standards Committees, overcoming numerous obstacles to address deficiencies in character encoding APIs. The effort promises better UTF-8 support and locale-based encoding conversions in the C standard library.

5 Years Later: The First Win

<p>Les gooo they finally doin somethin about it.</p>
