[haiku] Re: Proposals for the LocaleKit
- From: "Travis D. Reed" <tdreed@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 13:35:42 -0600
This is the problem. (Ironically, I used to fight against this with PHP, now
it does it by itself.) I'm trying to peal off just 8 bits at a time from the
string, but the way I'm doing it, it counts ellipsis as a char...*sigh*
Still working on it.
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Travis D. Reed
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 1:27 PM, PulkoMandy <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Le Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:58:56 +0100, Travis D. Reed <tdreed@xxxxxxxxx> a
> écrit:
>
>
> I've figured out that my problems with fingerprints have to do with UTF-8
>> conversions. This probably explains weirdness in compiling my generated
>> catalogs too. How should I represent é and ô and especially ellipsis,
>> which
>> doesn't even have an ASCII equivalent?
>> --
>> Travis D. Reed
>>
>
> There is no conversion to ASCII involved anywhere. The Locale Kit is
> handling the strings as a stream of bytes, so é and ô will count as 2 bytes,
> and ellipsis as 3 (0xE2 0x80 0xA6), in the utf-8 encoding.
> http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2026/index.htm gives infos
> about the ellipsis.
>
> I have no idea how it is possible to split an unicode character as multiple
> bytes in php ...
>
>
> --
> Adrien Destugues / PulkoMandy
> http://pulkomandy.ath.cx
>
>
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