[openbeos] Re: StyledEdit news of various interest

On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 04:12:35 +0200 CEST "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@pinc-
software.de> wrote:
> "Ingo Weinhold" <bonefish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Also, the set of character sets is hard-coded into 
> > > CharacterSet.cpp.  
> > > I think it would be superior to have it read from a file.
> > Sure. BTW, this sounds like another service, that could be provided 
> > by 
> > the registrar. Then the application doesn't need to parse the file, 
> > but 
> > would get the data from the registrar.
> 
> Why not just have it hard-coded in libtranslation.so? Or is there any 
> other way of adding other character sets without replacing that 
> library?

Good point.

> It could build that table on compilation time automatically. Where is 
> the point in having that info in a text file somewhere?

Right, unless we intend to add something like encoding add-ons, this 
makes most sense.

CU, Ingo

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