Ok ok, everybody calm down.

No need to tell people to go away just because they couldn't answer you question, Jesus, taka a valium...

Anyway, Interesting problem, a few more details of what you are trying to do would be helpful!

Actually the Chinese alphabet was a good hint! a 16bit (double byte) system hold 65,000+ digits.

I would assume 10bits for a 1024 digit system, so if you have a clue about C in which everything is held in char arrays, hold everything in int arrays! there's an overhead sure but it means it's expandable up to 16 bit and it's in a nice easy format. you can kill the overhead when you save to disc (for compression)


One chr per Int, (null terminate them like C if it makes them easier to use) build a class and wor with there, data types that don't fit will have to be AND OR or XOR'd to fit the system.

without more details I can't help more... ie do you want to map to fonts, what sort of lookup were you thinking about? the more detailed the question the more detailed the answer

[Edited by Paul282 on 04-14-2000 at 10:26 AM]