[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: widechar vs utf-16/utf-32
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 10:11:33 -0500
widechar is defined as unsigned short unless enable-ucs4 has been
specified, in which case it is defined as unsigned int.
John
On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 12:44:27PM +0200, Christian Egli wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I was trying to enhance the test code in test/brl_checks.c so that test
> code can use utf-8 strings instead of ascii with \xhhhh encodings. For
> that I was trying some code from gnulib to convert utf-8 to utf-16 as I
> thought widechar was basically ucs-2 (which was superseded by
> utf-16[1]). Now my code doesn't work. This could have many reasons but
> the question is of course: is the widechar type really utf-16? Or is it
> maybe utf-16 with little endian? Or is it something else altogether?
>
> Thanks
> Christian
>
> Footnotes:
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-16
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