Generical Termsinology relating to computer storage of characters
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The last few posts demonstrate clearly that there is plenty of scope for misuse, poor use, misunderstanding, mismomers, etc., in the use of the terms related to how computers handle characters in memory. It is difficult to move forward in discussions if one even tries to be more accurate and precise, since the extra words piss some people off so much that they at best don't want to read further, and at worst want to kill you.
I would suggest the best compromise would be to have some general terms to help give at least some awareness of the more accurate issues behind, historical and otherwise. These terms can therefore be referenced here for a better understanding and better advancement of mankind.
** AASI
AASI is equivalent to "ANSI", where "ANSI" would be likely to be used under the correct historical reference misnomer Perpetration, and this new term AASI could be thought of as a generical term for what people are most likely be referring to as goings-on in a computer either with, or arising from, character processes involved mostly with the first typical 256 (0-255) characters. More likely in any conversation, we would be more interested in, or we would be interested in differences in, the second half.
** WUnicorn
This will be used as a general term for all things "Unicode" or Unicode but centred around, or with more emphasis on, either the "Wide" equivalent of an "ANSI thing" and/or the typical Microsoft UTF-16 (LE) Unicode Encoding
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Generical Termsinology 4 experiment types
Terminology used in discussing experiments centred around VB Strings , in particular when investigating the string parameters in VB(A) win32 API functions
Just the basic 4 forms of VB(A) win32 API functions are detailed here. The significance is the main subject of most of the musings around the last dozen or two postings here.
Straight AASI
The Declareing line is used in the form most often given in VB or VBA literature whereby :
_ string parameters are given As String. ( Further more we note that most often the full parameter would read
ByVal MyStrvariable As String
, but not exclusively so, - there may occasionally be a ByRef instead .)
_ Most typically the win 32 API function given will have a trailing A in it's name, pseudo like MyWin32APIFunctionA
"Half way house" AASI (HWH ASII)
( The terminology arises here from a knowledge of the typical solution that almost always works to get over problems where characters, predominantly those with higher code points, ( > 255 ), may somehow give problems. This solution, just very briefly given here, involves usually 2 adjustments to the Straight AASI
_ In the Declareing line, the typically given As String is replaced by As Lo_____, where Lo_____ may be a Long type such as Long or LongPtr )
The "Half way house" AASI (HWH ASII) replaces the string parameters given As String with As Long or As LongPtr
Full WUnicorn
The two main characteristics of this solution is
_The (Microsoft) "W" version of a Win32 API Function, which most usually is available is used. This usually looks similar to the AASI version, but with a trailing W in place of the trailing A , pseudo like MyWin32APIFunctionW (This is often referred to under imprecise approximate mismomer convention as the Unicode version when distinguishing or in comparison speaking using the full historical mismomer reference "ANSI" or ANSI for the "A" version
_ Any string parameters given by As String are replaced with As Long or As LongPtr
Half way house WUnicorn (HWHWU)
This is the Full WUnicorn version but with any string parameters As String
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