[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: [liblouis] r715 committed - the last batch of files converted to utf-8.
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 13:47:07 -0500
I prefer to stick with the \xhhhh notation in the characcter arguments
of opcodes. It is more readable with simple text editors.
John
On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 05:52:35PM +0100, Mesar Hameed wrote:
> 128 to 255 is the range for codepages, which is now depricated due to its
> inherent problems.
> For example we cant write german+russian texts, or swedish+greek etc.
> unicode will make sure that we will be able to support all combinations of
> languages at once.
>
> I believe that it can be done, but in a round about and error prone way.
>
> Thanks,
> Mesar
> On Mon 02/07/12,10:16, John J. Boyer wrote:
> > My mistake. I meant to say 0 to 255.
> >
> > John
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 04:10:03PM +0100, Mesar Hameed wrote:
> > > Hi John,
> > >
> > > On Mon 02/07/12,09:52, John J. Boyer wrote:
> > > > UTF-8 in the opcode arguments would be a bad idea. Since the beginning,
> > > > the character argument has accepted characters from 0 to 127 as valid.
> > > > UTF-8 conflicts with this.
> > >
> > > According to the standard 0 to 127 is exactly the same for ascii and for
> > > utf-8, so this is not a conflict.
> > >
> > > Wikipedia reitterates this:
> > >
> > > "The first 128 characters of Unicode, which correspond one-to-one with
> > > ASCII, are encoded using a single octet with the
> > > same binary value as ASCII, making valid ASCII text valid UTF-8-encoded
> > > Unicode as well."
> > >
> > > from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8
> > >
> > > I could dig up a more reputable source if its required.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Mesar
> > > For a description of the software, to download it and links to
> > > project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com
> >
> > --
> > John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer
> > Abilitiessoft, Inc.
> > http://www.abilitiessoft.com
> > Madison, Wisconsin USA
> > Developing software for people with disabilities
> >
> > For a description of the software, to download it and links to
> > project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com
> For a description of the software, to download it and links to
> project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com
--
John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer
Abilitiessoft, Inc.
http://www.abilitiessoft.com
Madison, Wisconsin USA
Developing software for people with disabilities
For a description of the software, to download it and links to
project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com
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