On Dec 27, 2009, at 3:07 PM, Thomas Tempelmann wrote:
I wonder what's up with this part of the Plugin SDK's documentation:
REALclassRef REALGetClassRef(const char *className);
className: the name of the class to retrieve. This parameter must
be an ANSI string (not Unicode).
The part about "must be an ANSI string" bothers me. What is meant by
that, exactly, on the Mac?
I assume that ANSI here means the WinLatin1 encoding?
Let's assume a class is named "Cläss". Does that mean that even on the
Mac I have to convert this name to WinLatin1 to use REALGetClassRef?
That looks a unusual wrong to me.
It means one-byte-char-string as far as can be judged. Language
parsers/lexers have difficulties in reading strings of chars with
leading and trailing bytes. No UTF-8. UTF-16 might be a better
encoding, but that requires all existing code and libraries doing
syntax-coloring should change their underlying unsigned char to
unsigned short strings. Has to do with finding the position between
chars, avoiding t positioning within a two-byte char. Is like adding a
single nucleotide into DNA, which is "3-char" coded. UTF-8 is even
worse as you know...
Would this make sense?
A.
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