[scribus-dev] Change to UTF-32

Jean Ghali jghali at libertysurf.fr
Tue May 31 06:53:16 UTC 2016


Le 31/05/2016 à 07:29, Khaled Hosny a écrit 
>> Jeans not convinced that we need to move to UTF32 at this stage in
>> CTL, i.e. too early, not required. That we will see regressions in
>> unknown places and find it hard to prove that the code is working
>> properly for testing etc.
> The fact that we already have a few reports at GitHub about supporting
> characters outside BMP says otherwise.

Supporting Emojis or historic scripts is certainly something nice, but supporting them is
not in any way required at this point. So I maintain my position. UTF-32 has advantages
but this is something which can wait after CTL code merge.




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