Hello Armel,
UTF-16 is not important here. What I want is one extra style byte to
handle the background's style. Extra style byte may also handle 3 more
indicators, or such.
Armel, is your modification to extended styles available somewhere?
Best regards,
Martin
Armel Asselin wrote:
is there any chance to have two style bytes for one character? One style
for backColor and one for other style properties. The purpose is to
easily distinguish embedded languages by backColor independently on
"fore" style.
I think that it would be much simpler to just have 2 bytes for each,
UTF-16 for the characters and 16 bits for the attribute - simply
extending the attribute from 8 to 16 bits.
why UTF-16? what advantage? it has the same properties as UTF8 but is
bigger most of the time at least for Western languages. translation from
UTF-8 to UTF-16 is low cost and purely functional, keeping UTF-8 seems a
better idea... moreover _all_ the code assumes 'char*', going to UTF16
would involve changes in _all_ the code...
extended the style stuff is feasible (I did it), but it has a big
disadvantage: the extra memory cost. 1 style byte makes a x2 on memory
(around x6 during insertions) but 4 styles bytes involves (x12 !!!)...
so as say the song: Hey think twice...
this solution is far from perfect :(
Armel
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