Recently I realized that the code I shared for Palindrome here has a few limitations. It supports only ASCII character sets (i.e. mainly English alphabet & numbers). It won't support other language palindromes.
See the following palindrome examples from some other major languages:
If you input any of the above in our previous code you won't get a correct output. The characters in above examples such as é द 不 etc. are non ASCII and hence our previous code doesn't work.
Check the above palindromes with this new code in action.
Let us see how to overcome this limitation.
rune: Type rune is basically int32. It generally indicates a Unicode code point.
See the following revised code that works perfectly fine even with non-ASCII characters.
P.S. Reference: The code is adapted from The Go Programming Language (Donovan & Kernighan).
See the following palindrome examples from some other major languages:
- été (French)
- दामाद (Hindi)
- सरस (Hindi)
- 不得不 (Chinese)
- abañaba (Spanish)
- анилина (Russian)
- カジカ (Japanese)
If you input any of the above in our previous code you won't get a correct output. The characters in above examples such as é द 不 etc. are non ASCII and hence our previous code doesn't work.
Check the above palindromes with this new code in action.
Let us see how to overcome this limitation.
rune: Type rune is basically int32. It generally indicates a Unicode code point.
See the following revised code that works perfectly fine even with non-ASCII characters.
P.S. Reference: The code is adapted from The Go Programming Language (Donovan & Kernighan).
