Unicode or ascii

Mauro Fantina

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Hello to everybody.

I have a question.

I'm using dsp tms320f28069 and code composer studio v4.

I have see that every character in C strings

consume a word (16 bit) memory instead of 1 single byte.

For example char title[30] = "Texas"; is mapped like

0x0054 0x0065 0x0078 0x0061 0x0073 0x0000

The question is: does tms320f28069 use Uinicode chars ?

over 13 years ago

0 AartiG over 13 years ago

TI__Guru**** 173310 points

If you're looking for a way to store a char data type into 1 byte, please see this related post.

0 Archaeologist over 13 years ago

TI__Guru* 84285 points

No, the TI compilers do not use Unicode as the execution character set. There is (limited) support for wide and multibyte characters, but no direct support for Unicode.

The "char" type is 16 bits on C2000 because that is the smallest addressable unit of memory.

Furthermore, because of the way the C standard defines "byte", byte is also 16 bits on C2000.

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