From: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: Unicode and Guile
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 15:16:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031031131608.GA715@lark> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xfyu15xgs82.fsf@csserver.evansville.edu>
Sorry it's taken me a long time to reply.
On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, Stephen Compall wrote:
> Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> 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.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-31 13:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-21 17:15 Unicode and Guile Andy Wingo
2003-10-25 17:08 ` Stephen Compall
2003-10-26 0:03 ` Tom Lord
2003-10-26 12:34 ` Which Encoding? (was Re: Unicode and Guile) Stephen Compall
2003-10-31 13:25 ` Unicode and Guile Andy Wingo
2003-11-03 13:35 ` text buffers (was Re: Unicode and Guile) Stephen Compall
2003-11-03 20:34 ` Tom Lord
2003-11-04 10:04 ` Stephen Compall
2003-11-03 20:31 ` Unicode and Guile Tom Lord
2003-11-06 18:16 ` Andy Wingo
2003-11-11 19:02 ` Tom Lord
2003-11-12 0:29 ` Marius Vollmer
2003-11-12 1:40 ` Tom Lord
2003-11-12 2:30 ` Marius Vollmer
2003-11-12 4:03 ` Tom Lord
2003-11-12 16:59 ` Marius Vollmer
2003-11-17 16:17 ` Andy Wingo
2003-11-12 0:06 ` Marius Vollmer
2003-11-12 1:27 ` Tom Lord
2003-10-31 13:16 ` Andy Wingo [this message]
2003-11-02 21:23 ` Kevin Ryde
2003-11-26 20:35 ` Mikael Djurfeldt
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