[scribus-dev] Change to UTF-32

[Louis Desjardins]

2016-05-30 14:56 GMT-04:00 Craig Bradney <cbradney at scribus.info>:

>
> > On 30 May 2016, at 17:26, Andreͮaͦsͯ <andreas.vox at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > Khaled recently committed a change to the HOST-Oman/ctl branch that
> changes the text coding from UTF_16 (QChar/QString) to UTF-32:
> >
> https://github.com/HOST-Oman/scribus/commit/b2886e64b4aba660e4939d6cdaba066aed39d081
> >
> > Since we have divided opinions on this issue, would you mind reviewing
> the discussion in the comments and add your own thoughts?
> >
> > Best regards
> > /Andreas
> >
> >
>
>
> I don’t really see the difference because I don’t know the code. If the
> APIs enable me, or anyone who doesn’t know the text code to do stuff like
> insert text at a certain point for example, the it would seem ok.
> One thing that is mentioned is for example inserting a QChar.. so how does
> one programmatically insert 1 character?
>
> I don’t have an opinion on the 16 vs 32 as long as it works so we can do
> all operations.. read/write to file, display it, type it, export it to
> various formats.
>

Does this matter at text importation?

Louis

>
> Is there a speed difference?
>
> At the beginning of the conversation, you seem to disagree with Khaled and
> then at the end (where it is now) you disagree less?
>
> Craig
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