On Friday 13 May 2011 17:34:21 Colin D Bennett wrote: > > Note that it's been mentioned that PCB's internal "text" > > representation should switch from ASCII-7 to UTF-8, and I agree. > > That should be quite simple and painless, right? Fully > backward-compatible.
*cringe* Those sound like famous last words to me. There at least four things that make converting to UTF-8 often nightmarish: 1) Code that assumes that strlen returns the number of characters in a string. 2) Code that iterates through characters in a string. 3) Trying to treat filenames as UTF-8 (sometimes they are. Sometimes they're not). 4) Multiple Unicode codepoints for the same actual character. Good luck! Peter -- Peter Brett <pe...@peter-b.co.uk> Remote Sensing Research Group Surrey Space Centre _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user