> With richtext you need to arrange your layout in sane ways,
> that's the hard job. That's why I always told not bothering with
> such stuff. A fixed-font widget suffices.
That also depends on how much richtext we allow.
If you want to stay sane, you want zero "richtext".
If we only allow as
about much richtext as terminal emulators do, we don't need to
rearrange too much to cope with that, I suppose.
And your widgets will suck about as much as any terminal emulator.
I thought terminals should die a bloody and painful death? That's at
least what they should do in my opinion. They are too restricted and
primitive in my eyes, and they make any sane text handling a mess.
(How many terminal emulators do you know that, for example, break text
correctly on resize?)
That is because they don't handle text, they handle "richtext", I specially
love it how cat-ing a binary file sends any typewriter emulator flying to
outer space in a thousand pieces, got to love reset(1) (when it works.)
> Sounds like a mess, I expected this. Thus I say, don't care
> about it. If someone needs an order of thai symbols, he will
> write a thai_strcmp or invent another square wheel. But we
> should not care about it, because we only know 3-5 languages and
> cannot decide.
Amen, if you want such crap, you cook it and you eat it.
If we made ordering and line breaking and stuff also a filter's job, it
would be absolutely no problem to implement a locale and language
sensitive strcmp some day.
Locales should die, period.
Uhm, strncmp doesn't work either. Don't use that.
Uhu? Why? It works perfectly fine.
Also, don't forget
that two strings that are /not/ byte-to-byte identical still could need
to compare identical in Unicode; C's string functions work only on
that assumption! It's not that simple.
And who cares what Unicode says? Once more, if you want ICU, you know where to
find it, we want a sane library that does what we need it to do, not that
follows some delusional standard.
uriel
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