At 11:59 PM 10/25/2001 +0100, Tom Hughes wrote:
>In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > =item type
> >
> > What the character set or type of data is encoded in the buffer. This
> > includes things like ASCII, EBCDIC, Unicode, Chinese Traditional,
> > Chinese Simplified, or Shift-JIS. (And yes, I know the latter's a
> > combination of type and encoding. I'll update the doc as soon as I can
> > reasonablty separate the two)
>
>Isn't this going to need to be a vtable pointer like encoding is?
Yup. I'd intended it to be an index into a table of character set
functions. Jarkko has convinced me that it's better to have it as a vtable
pointer, but I haven't had a chance to update the docs yet.
Dan
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