[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: [liblouis] r715 committed - the last batch of files converted to utf-8.

  • From: "John J. Boyer" <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2012 11:58:32 -0500

As I said in another message I can make the change in a short time. It 
probably won't delay anyone's work. Since I have already started I would 
prefer to go ahead. 

John

On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 11:22:00AM +0200, Christian Egli wrote:
> "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > However, i want to see more of a consensus. So who else wants UTF-8 in 
> > the character argument of opcodes? It might be a good idea to start a 
> > new thread with this question.
> 
> As a sighted reader I prefer UTF-8 to \xhhhh notation. However I'm with
> Bert on this that this is not a top priority as we had a working
> solution before. There were some tables in latin-1 and these worked
> (maybe only if you use them to translate latin-1 text). Of course for
> uniformity it would be nice if they were all in the same encoding. So I
> would suggest to delay this until after we ship the 2.5 release (which
> as it looks now might be sometimes in August because when most of us are
> back from summer holidays).
> 
> Thanks
> Christian
> 
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> Christian Egli
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