[scribus-dev] Change to UTF-32

Gregory Pittman gpittman at iglou.com
Tue May 31 13:30:13 UTC 2016


On 05/31/2016 07:13 AM, Khaled Hosny wrote:

> Any way, people are free to reject the parts of the patches they don’t
> like. I don’t have this weird notion that some characters or scripts are
> first class citizen and others we can think about them later. UTF-16 is
> the worst of encodings (as I explained in the IRC discussion), it
> encourages developers to write bad code, and the sorry state of non-BMP
> in Scribus is a great testimony about this.
> 

I do think we should do our users the favor of making sure that the
included scripts are all still working before we release some change
like the character encoding. Everything should be fixable, but it makes
a bad impression to break things and then wait for people to complain.

Greg



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