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Re: Unicode and Guile
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Andy Wingo |
Subject: |
Re: Unicode and Guile |
Date: |
Fri, 31 Oct 2003 15:16:08 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.4i |
Sorry it's taken me a long time to reply.
On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, Stephen Compall wrote:
> Andy Wingo <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > If there is no plan, may I suggest that we move our internal
> > representation of strings to UTF-8. There's an interesting
> > introductory article written on www.joelonsoftware.com, although I
> > don't have the link ATM. This has the advantage that ASCII
> > characters up to 127 are represented the same.
>
> I think this may be a disadvantage. As you say, UTF-8 strings are
> still not ASCII-compatible, but that casting their data blocks to
> char* still works for ASCII strings, people might be tempted to simply
> do that, because other languages "don't matter enough to bother with
> it".
It is, however, a feasible conversion strategy. It is the approach taken
by Gtk+ and friends when they switched to Unicode. Apps don't break
(crash) in the switch, it's only that processing a multibyte string will
lead to strange things. Users will then file bugs / complain to the
author, and then things get fixed. It's a soft switch.
That said, I don't have a religious opinion on the matter.
Regards,
wingo.
- Re: Unicode and Guile, (continued)
- Re: Unicode and Guile, Andy Wingo, 2003/11/11
- Re: Unicode and Guile, Tom Lord, 2003/11/11
- Re: Unicode and Guile, Marius Vollmer, 2003/11/11
- Re: Unicode and Guile, Tom Lord, 2003/11/11
- Re: Unicode and Guile, Marius Vollmer, 2003/11/11
- Re: Unicode and Guile, Tom Lord, 2003/11/11
- Re: Unicode and Guile, Marius Vollmer, 2003/11/12
- Re: Unicode and Guile, Andy Wingo, 2003/11/18
- Re: Unicode and Guile, Marius Vollmer, 2003/11/11
- Re: Unicode and Guile, Tom Lord, 2003/11/11
Re: Unicode and Guile,
Andy Wingo <=
Re: Unicode and Guile, Mikael Djurfeldt, 2003/11/26