Developing and Implementing Windows®-Based Applications with Visual C#™ .NET and Visual Studio® .NET Exam Cram™ 2 (Exam 70-316)

Managing User Input

Global applications require several special considerations when planning for manipulation and validation of user input. When attempting to validate non-Latin character user input, it might be necessary to extract single characters in sequence through string indexing. The comparison and sort order of a simple alphabetic sort routine might produce different results, depending on the culture used.

String Indexing

The Unicode standard supports 32-bit extended characters (surrogate characters) and 32-bit characters that are formed by combining two 16-bit Unicode characters (combined characters), such as an accent mark and the base character to which it applies. To evaluate these characters amid other normal input characters, it ...