--- F J Franklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Doing the "code janitor" work to tidy things like > this up isn't most > > people's idea of a fun time, but I'd love to see > it happen. Are you > > volunteering or recruiting? :-) > > At the moment neither, but this is the time to > identify such changes. > > > >For example, the encoding manager sits in XAP > but, as other current > > >threads attest, encoding is a fundamental part of > AbiWord, and should > > >probably sit in UT... > > > > I think you may misunderstand the roles of UT and > XAP. > > > > UT = low-level utilities > > XAP = application services used by more than one > Abi* application > > 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
Weren't you just using UT_Iconv? > 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. I think the Encoding Manager was tightly involved with getting the locale from the native OS at some point but I'm not sure. I do think that much of the Encoding Manager should be moved out - specifically some of the stuff I added like the encoding sniffing. I'm pretty sure there will be a need for a UT_Encoding file and still an XAP_EncodingManager but I may be wrong. We definitely want it so we never need to call XAP_ from UT_ as you say. Andrew Dunbar. > > >One thing I'd like to add is an IO category. > > That doesn't require a tree reorg, does it? > > Require? No. > > Regards, Frank > > Francis James Franklin > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "No, she really likes me. She told me I look like > Britney Spears, and why > would you say that to somebody you don't like?" > > --- Elle Woods > > ===== http://linguaphile.sourceforge.net http://www.abisource.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com
