On Thursday 02 September 2004 03:59, Dave Yeo wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 16:26:43 +0200, Bradley T Hughes wrote:
> >So, I've just spent some time working on one of the biggest
> > deficiencies in 0.70.0-beta1: Unicode support.
> >
> >For blackbox users:
> >
> >This means that blackbox is on EWMH compliant, and exchanges strings
> >with EWMH compliant applications/utilites in UTF-8.  If you use the
> >right fonts, you should see any Unicode character you want.  For
> >example, take a look at
> >http://trolls.troll.no/bhughes/blackbox/blackbox-unicode.png
> >
> >For libbt users:
> >
> >The API has changed slightly from beta1.  There is now
> > bt/Unicode.hh, which includes some nice functions to convert from
> > the user's locale to Unicode and back.  In addition, you can
> > convert from Unicode to UTF-8 and back, but you should rarely need
> > this.  A new Unicode string type has also been introduced:
> > bt::ustring, which is used for any string that can be displayed on
> > screen.
> >
> >Questions/comments/flames are more than welcome. :)
>
> Just wondering how hard it would be to make this an option?
> Specifically the dependency on libiconv. 

I'm not quite sure, really.  The dependency on iconv isn't too heavy 
compared to other software that's out there.  Most people already have 
either a recent system with iconv in the C library or some libiconv 
library installed, so usually there's no extra work involved ;)

> Dave 

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Bradley T. Hughes - bhughes at trolltech.com
Trolltech AS - Waldemar Thranes gt. 98 N-0175 Oslo, Norway

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