I'm not sure we need TWO different set of function. Let's say we go UTF-8. As far as I understood, all the string that need interpretation from a musical point of view (notes, rests, chord, decorations, field names, ...) stay exactly the same since they all are standard ASCII (i.e. < 0x80).
The only change is how to treat the string in some of the fields (lyrics for example). Am I correct? Remo. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Rosen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2004 4:13 PM Subject: Re: [abcusers] ABCp output data structure > UNICODE Advantage: Any character in any language can be displayed. > UNICODE Disadvantage: Everyone using the structure needs to be UNICODE > aware. Are there systems and computer languages that can't handle it? > > That's why I was wondering if there should be some type of switch passed to > the parser about whether to output UNICODE. > > Actually, since the app passes the string with the tune to the parser, we > could have two functions, one that accepts a UNICODE string and outputs > UNICODE strings, and the other that accepts an ASCII string and outputs > ASCII strings. > > (There's no point in returning UNICODE strings if the original was ASCII, > since no extra characters were used.) > > Paul Rosen > --- Life is a musical, every once in a while > the plot stops and you start singing and dancing --- > http://home.earthlink.net/~catharsis.music/ > http://home.earthlink.net/~theplums/ > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Remo D. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2004 5:26 AM > Subject: Re: [abcusers] ABCp output data structure > > > > > *Please* go for Unicode! TMHO, it is *the* way to go when it comes to > > encoding > > > plain text. For something like an international folk songbook (that > could > > > contain e.g. lyrics in latin, cyrillic *and* greek alphabet) the current > > > standard (and applications, for that matter) fall short. > > > > I do agree with you 100% on the needing. My problem is that I do not know > > enough Unicode to figure out how exacatly to do it! Any volunteer? > > > > Remo > > > > To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: > http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html > > To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html > To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
