[haiku-development] Re: Font Encoding
- From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 10:15:22 +0100
Le 16 févr. 2011 à 09:51, pulkomandy a écrit :
>
> No, the API design is broken. It is NOT possible to perform streamed
> conversions with it.
> You need to send it a whole text and get the full result at once. This is
> because if you want to split the text in multiple chunks, you _have_ to
> keep a context to connect between them. This may not be a too big problem
> in converting iso-8859<>utf-8 (unless you cut your chunk inside a multibyte
> utf8 char), but it is much more annoying when working with utf-16 or utf-7,
> because each chunk gets a begin and end marker, whereas there should be
> only one at the very beginning and the very end of the file.
Well it's not only ours that is broken, I recall seeing (little squares) BOMs
on some websites due to broken editors putting them in UTF-8 too...
And some people pasting way too many on IRC.
François.
Other related posts:
