Re: [h5md-user] units module

[Konrad Hinsen]

Pierre de Buyl writes:

 > Pragmatic :-)

Indeed :-)

 > Well, I tested writing from Fortran and that works nice :-)
 > 
 > Peter and I tested reading in Python and that is ok.
 > 
 > Konrad, you expressed concerns about UTF8, could you comment on whether that
 > would be a problem?

The problem is not so much in reading and writing UTF-8 (which is
indeed just like ASCII), but in interpreting UTF-8 strings. So we need
to consider code that manipulates unit strings rather than just
copying them around. Stuff like applying/removing SI prefixes. Of
course I wouldn't like doing that in C even with ASCII.

There's also the practical problem of writing unit string constants in
languages that don't accept Unicode in the source. It's possible, of
course, but not convenient.

Konrad.
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