On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, F J Franklin wrote:
>
> I think I understood it. XAP always seems like GUI-related stuff. What got
> me thinking about the encoding manager was working on the UTF8String class
> where all I wanted to do was convert between UTF-8 & UCS-2, and felt very
> frustrated about the apparent need to use XAP routines - in the end I
> dodged the issue, but if Abi is going to be converting between UTF-* &
> UCS-* internally then perhaps the encoding manager ought to be integrated
> with the string class. It's not clear to me why the encoding manager is in
> XAP anyway, though I'm sure there is (or was) a good reason. At the moment
> iconv stuff is scattered, in UT_iconv, UT_[w]ctomb (ick) & XAP_Enc... and
> isn't always treated very consistently, so perhaps a rewrite is in order
> anyway.
>
It just seemed the best place at the time. We didn't really think it all
the way through. If it is neccessary for UTF-8 to UC_UCSChar conversions
then by all means move it to af/util/xp.
Hub did some similar major changes the other way a little while
ago. ut/unix => xap/unix
Cheers
Martin
PS. If you're not familar with sed ask hub. You need to do global
/xap/xap_Encoding => ut/UT_Encoding changes all over the code.
