I'll re-enable the UCS2 methods on the UCS4 and UTF8
string classes and simply remove the UCS2 string class
and other silly ucs2 functions.

Dom

--- William Lachance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 00:12, Andrew Dunbar wrote:
> 
> > Disabled UCS-2 string class since they've been
> >  superceded by UCS-4.
> >  The only place they were used was in the
> Barbarisms
> >  code and there it was being used in a very
> strange
> > way. 
> >  I couldn't test my change as I couldn't find the
> XML
> >  file needed.
> >  To re-enable UCS-2 support, define
> > ENABLE_UCS2_STRINGS.
> 
> Just to followup on Marc's mail:
> 
> libwpd2 (the library for reading/writing WordPerfect
> documents) uses
> UCS2 internally. I made this choice because:
> 
> 1. OO.o and (AFAIK) KWord use UCS2 internally. There
> isn't AFAIK an easy
> way of converting from UCS4->UCS2 in OO.o.
> 2. AbiWord provides a robust way of doing the
> conversion from UCS2->UCS4
> (or at least it used to).
> 3. WordPerfect's extended character set is a subset
> of UCS2.
> 
> -- 
> William Lachance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 


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