[haiku-development] Re: Font Encoding
- From: pulkomandy <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 08:23:33 +0100
On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 07:35:56 +0100, Michael Pfeiffer
<michael.w.pfeiffer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am 16.02.2011 um 04:18 schrieb Clemens:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> the encoding is a modified UTF-7:
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3501#section-5.1.3
>>
>> already some code which can parse / transform it into a BString. Have
no
>> clue at all about encoding, means also basic tips are welcome!
>
> Probably the best way to make encoding/decoding modified UTF-7 available
> system wide would be to add
> support for it to convert_to_utf8() and convert_from_utf8() [1, 2].
These functions don't work well because they need a token that currently
we don't keep on subsequent calls. So it would be better to design a new
API, likely part of the locale kit, to handle it properly instead, and keep
this one only for legacy apps.
https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/976
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