[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Using liblouis within an Android app.
- From: Dave Mielke <dave@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 12:51:14 -0500
[quoted lines by Michael Whapples on 2016/01/05 at 11:11 +0000]
I have read that Windows is using UTF-16LE and not UCS2 for its unicode so can
have surrogate pairs to represent any 32-bit unicode character which is not
valid for the fixed width UCS2.
Yes, that's correct. Windows does use UTF-16. Assuming little endian might be
incorrect. I'm just guessing, but I suspect that it's actually native endian.
In other words, weree Windows running on a big endian platform, I'm guessing
that its UTF-16 encoding would also be big endian.
Also, it may be worth noting, here, that Java, too, uses UTF-16 to encode the
characters within its String object.
In my opinion: Liblouis should be 32-bit based, and also offer a pair of
functions to convert to/from UTF-16.
Isn't there a standard C unicode data type? One thought is wchar_t,
but I read that is compiler specific so may lead to issues should
liblouis be compiled with one compiler and the application with
another.
No. On Windows, for example, wchar_t is only 16 bits.
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