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 -- Bradley T. Hughes - bhughes at trolltech.com Trolltech AS - Waldemar Thranes gt. 98 N-0175 Oslo, Norway -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] List archives: http://asgardsrealm.net/lurker/splash/index.html Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
