Re: utf-16 and glib

["Martin (OPENGeoMap)" <martin opengeomap org>]

Philip Withnall escribió:
> On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 00:19 +0100, Martin (OPENGeoMap) wrote:  
>   
> > hummm.
> > Example:
> > If we have for example a DWG binary file we have for example 15000 utf16 
> > strings. If i use glib i need make 15000 translations utf16/utf8 to use 
> > the utf8 glib api.  When i need save the file i need make other 15000 
> > translations. There are thounsand of formats using utf16. I don´t love 
> > utf16, but I "MUST" use utf16 in the real world. I am not the guilty of 
> > existence of utf16 :'( .
> >     
>
> If you find that really is a bottleneck, there's nothing stopping you
> from writing functions _in your app_ which would deal with the strings
> as UTF-16 throughout the process of loading and saving.
>
>   
In modern languages like D the solution is the native support for 
utf8/utf16/utf32 and now in glib the solution is build your own utf16 
library. I can not believe me that :-[ .
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/type.html 
<http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/lex.html>
http://tango.dsource.org/docs/current/tango.text.Unicode.html. 
<http://tango.dsource.org/docs/current/tango.text.Unicode.html>

I don´t want say we "MUST" add more support to glib. I only say most 
software developers works with utf16 text and many of that people are 
not "fan" of that encoding but they must use it in the 100% of the 
source code.

Regards.


> Philip
>
>   
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> >
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