On 16.02.2010, at 20:46, Duncan Gibson wrote: > >> Unfortunately I don't know much about UTF-8, font rendering and such, >> so that I decided not to try to do anything UTF-8 related, > > For good or bad, I have no practical experience of UTF-8 either, and > little spare time to learn at the moment, but I have the feeling that > we're all going to be obliged to learn the basics because sooner or > later we'll all hit strlen(string) != numberOfChars > > As an anglophone working in an English-speaking environment it's less > likely to hit me than most Europeans with accented characters, or Greg > with his Japanese requirements, or the Chinese, Russian and others who > have posted recently who will most likely use non-latin scripts too, > but bite me it will. It only needs someone to cut and paste some text > from their UTF-8 enabled application or web page into my input field > and BOOM!
UTF8 is working OK right now. I will go backwards through all functions and methods that use text and change their argument name to something_utf8 to mark it utf8-safe. The one huge effort will be Text_Buffer/Editor. The rest seems to be working quite well already. Matthias _______________________________________________ fltk-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk-dev
