[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: [liblouis] r715 committed - the last batch of files converted to utf-8.
- From: Mesar Hameed <mesar.hameed@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 17:52:35 +0100
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
>
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