On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 22:57:31 +0100 Eneko Lacunza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is perfectly possible to handle utf-8 encoded strings without > using > C wide characters. It's just that you can't use standard str* > functions for some tasks, that's all. Glib/Gdk libraries have the > replacement functions for utf-8 strings, if I don't get it wrong. >
Of course you can, but the disadvantage is that you can't use intelligent string functions and possibly have a UTF-8 character split up in the middle. And what is the advantage of converting wchar_t into char? The original poster wanted to convert functions that already use wchar_t to char, if I remember correctly. > I don't see why this means we need to use GdkWChar (note: it is > not > wchat_t). I didn't know that "wide characters" referred to GdkWChar. > > > > > The hard part is going to be converting the existing XML and > > > > database data from whatever it's currently using to UTF8. > > > We don't currently include an "encoding" in the XML data file. > > > That could be used as a trigger to ask the user for the old > > > encoding and then convert the data to UTF-8. A nice touch would > > > be to scan the file first looking for any characters with the high > > > order bit set to see if conversion is needed in the first place. > > I don't know about database data, but the XML file is a complete > > mess. You will not find any high order bit set in the XML file, > > because libxml has converted everything into HTML-entities. But > > unfortunately the wrong entities for every encoding != Latin1. Here > > a manual recoding of the XML-File is necessary, as I described twice > > here on this mailing list. > > I think it it perfectly possible to parse the XML file with it's > parser, then check all strings (unencoded from HTML-entities by the > parser). Of course it is possible, but it is not trivial. The aim is to compile gnucash with libxml2, but the existing parser relies on a bug of libxml1. I don't think you can use the parser the same way as it works now with libxml2. Sorry, that I post with very little background knowledge, but proper UTF-8 support is very important to me, and I really want it work. Reinke _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
