[scribus-dev] Change to UTF-32

[Khaled Hosny]

On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 03:01:58PM -0400, Louis Desjardins wrote:
> 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?

The only difference is that Scribus can now import and export text
outside Basic Multilingual Plane correctly.

Regards,
Khaled