[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 09:52:19 -0500
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. I have made this point before.
John
On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 10:53:35AM +0200, Christian Egli wrote:
> Hi Mesar
>
> Mesar Hameed <mesar.hameed@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > At this point all the tables are in utf-8, this does not mean that
> > they are valid tables, infact I have seen several tables that have
> > many errors, because they do not use \x for declaring their
> > characters.
>
> I applaud your efforts to get the tables into a uniform state. However
> since your commit I get tons of warnings on `make check`[1]. This means
> that we have many tables now that do not work. I was hoping to have a
> release before my vacation on July 15th, but we cannot release with this
> serious regression.
>
> Before we change the encoding of the tables we need to either
>
> - change the tables to use the \xhhhh notation or
> - enhance compileTranslationTable.c to accept utf-8 in the opcode
> arguments
>
> Only once this is done we can safely change the encoding. Please revert
> your changes.
>
> Thanks
> Christian
>
>
> Footnotes:
> [1] in fact if compileTranslationTable.c would not continue to search
> on the system path these warnings would be actual errors.
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