Re: [sword-devel] Re: sword-devel Digest, Vol 19, Issue 30

2005-11-05 Thread David Blue
On Tuesday 01 November 2005 07:39 am, DM Smith wrote: C++ does not support internationalization or localization. It is an afterthought at best. From the design point of view of a language, i18n should be an after thought unless you have built in strings (and even in java they're a class) with

Re: [sword-devel] Re: sword-devel Digest, Vol 19, Issue 30

2005-11-05 Thread Doug Royer
gettext is portable to Windows, I have done it. If anyone wants I can send the .NET sources. Also 'iconv' is ported to Windows, so charset translation doesn not need to be done in SWORD. Again I have the .NET files if they would help. David Blue wrote: On Tuesday 01 November 2005 07:39 am,

Re: [sword-devel] Re: sword-devel Digest, Vol 19, Issue 30

2005-11-02 Thread DM Smith
I cut my teeth on C++, as a teacher's aide to it and other OO languages at the University of Pittsburgh. In the early days, I compiled C++ 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0 for various unix architectures and found and fixed bugs in these implementations. In those early days I also wrote a significant set of

Re: [sword-devel] Re: sword-devel Digest, Vol 19, Issue 30

2005-11-01 Thread DM Smith
Chris Umphress wrote: On 10/31/05, Yiguang Hu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: About the encoding/book names. I am just wondering why the standard java resource bundle is not used ? For encoding, UTF-8 should be able to cover all the languages. I knew it covers MBCS like Japanese, Chinese

Re: [sword-devel] Re: sword-devel Digest, Vol 19, Issue 30

2005-11-01 Thread Chris Umphress
On 11/1/05, DM Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps not everyone uses Java ;-) So true. However, Java's resource bundle can be thought of as a design pattern. Its basic design is worthy of consideration for any language. C++ does not support internationalization or localization. It is an

Re: [sword-devel] Re: sword-devel Digest, Vol 19, Issue 30

2005-11-01 Thread Mina Magdy
C++ can handle UTF-8 perfectly (and by default) when used with QT liberary It is cross platfrom C++ liberary here is screenshot to it under windows http://www.trolltech.com/images/screenshots/qt_vs_integration.png --- Chris Umphress [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/1/05, DM Smith [EMAIL

Re: [sword-devel] Re: sword-devel Digest, Vol 19, Issue 30

2005-11-01 Thread David Blue (Mailing List Addy)
On Tuesday 01 November 2005 07:39 am, DM Smith wrote: C++ does not support internationalization or localization. It is an afterthought at best. From the design point of view of a language, i18n should be an after thought unless you have built in strings (and even in java they're a class) with

Re: [sword-devel] Re: sword-devel Digest, Vol 19, Issue 30

2005-11-01 Thread Chris Umphress
On 11/1/05, David Blue (Mailing List Addy) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From the design point of view of a language, i18n should be an after thought unless you have built in strings (and even in java they're a class) with the exception of making sure your character types are able to hold Unicode

[sword-devel] Re: sword-devel Digest, Vol 19, Issue 30

2005-10-31 Thread Yiguang Hu
About the encoding/book names. I am just wondering why the standard java resource bundle is not used ? For encoding, UTF-8 should be able to cover all the languages. I knew it covers MBCS like Japanese, Chinese and Korean (Usually KJC for short) well. It should not be a issue with any of the

Re: [sword-devel] Re: sword-devel Digest, Vol 19, Issue 30

2005-10-31 Thread Chris Umphress
On 10/31/05, Yiguang Hu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: About the encoding/book names. I am just wondering why the standard java resource bundle is not used ? For encoding, UTF-8 should be able to cover all the languages. I knew it covers MBCS like Japanese, Chinese and Korean (Usually KJC for