[scribus-dev] Change to UTF-32

ale rimoldi ale.comp_06 at xox.ch
Tue May 31 13:43:30 UTC 2016


hey

On 31/05/16 15:30, Gregory Pittman wrote:
> 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.

the problem are not the included scripts. we can fix them before 
including them.

the problem are all the other scripts that are in the wild.

but i'm not that worried. if we document how the included scripts had to 
be changed, at the time the new version will be stable, they have clear 
recipes for fixing their scripts.


ciao
a.l.e



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