[haiku-development] Re: Font Encoding
- From: pulkomandy <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 09:05:56 +0100
>> 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
>>
> If it is broken it should be fixed ;) To deprecate an API just because
we
> cannot
> provide a working implementation seems strange to me.
> I know at least one legacy application that uses them (BePDF) and
> StyledEdit and PDF Writer uses them too.
There seem to be no proper way to fix it. Patches welcome :)
We're not going to remove it, it works well enough in most cases for apps
using it already. But for example it is unable to handle utf-16 or utf-7,
because of the start and end markers, you can't use the functions in a
streamed way.
So, let's keep it around for the gcc2 version, but a better API should be
made.
Unless you have a way to fix the existing one.
--
Adrien.
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