I received a good question today from a developer who asked: Why should one not use pointer arithmetic for string length calculation, access to string elements, or string manipulation ? The main reason pointer arithmetic is not a good idea is...

In the world today, several languages (like Serbian and Bosnian) use two or more different scripts (like Latin and Cyrillic) to represent their written languages. There are times when people would like to either type in one script but produce the other...