How to read unicode (utf-8) / binary file line by line

Question

Hi programmers,

I want read line by line a Unicode (UTF-8) text file created by Notepad, i don\'t want display the Unicode string in the screen, i w

Answer 1

A nice property of UTF-8 is that you do not need to decode in order to compare it. The order returned from strcmp will be the same whether you decode it first or not. So just read it as raw bytes and run strcmp.