Bonjour Jean-Louis,
On 20.12.2011 22:51, Jean-Louis Faucher wrote:
> Guten abend Rony
>
> Does this comment mean that your sandbox version of ooRexx is fully
> Unicode-enabled already?
>
>
> no...I did not work on Unicode since several months. But since uft-8 is
> compatible with ascii,
> it's possible to process utf-8 strings and pass them to (or receive them
> from) oodialog. That's
> why I say I can use oodialog.wchar to test unicode, assuming I restart to
> work on Unicode.
thank you for this clarification!
>
> If so, how would you describe its stability? In any case: would it be
> possible to get at a
> binary version of it (Windows, Linux or Mac, any bitness) to be able to
> test it over Christmas?
>
> The sandbox version is very stable. I run ooRexxShell daily, which loads
> *all* the
> packages/libraries, including bsf4oorexx. After modifying one of the
> packages, I enter the
> 'reload' command which reloads everything in a few seconds, and I test.
> I can deliver a binary version for Windows (32 bits) and Mac (64 bits)
> through dropbox. The main
> thing to test is the RexxContextualSource (that I will probably rename
> RexxBlock) and all its
> derivatives.
Ah, once you have done that I would be interested in either binary! This will
allow me to experiment
with your implementation of extensions, maybe your "ooRexxShell" and your
implementation of
closures, which also look *very* interesting!
>
> ---
>
> Also another question in this context: what about oodialog.wchar that you
> state to be
> "outdated", was it fully Unicode-enabled (as wchar and your respective
> documentation in the
> sandbox indicate)? What about the newest version of oodialog then?
>
>
> yes, oodialog.wchar is fully Unicode. Internally, all the strings are utf-16
> strings. At the
> boundaries, the multi-bytes strings (which covers ascii, utf-8 strings) are
> converted to/from
> UTF-16. You have just to specify the code page of the multi-bytes strings.
> I don't plan to redo this work for the new oodialog, But the work is not
> lost...
Again many thanks for this clarification (also for Mark Miesfeld's comment) !
Best regards,
---rony
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