[scribus-dev] Change to UTF-32

[Craig Bradney]

> On 31 May 2016, at 16:32, William Bader <williambader at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > To: scribus-dev at lists.scribus.net <mailto:scribus-dev at lists.scribus.net>
> > From: ale.comp_06 at xox.ch <mailto:ale.comp_06 at xox.ch>
> > Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 15:43:30 +0200
> > Subject: Re: [scribus-dev] Change to UTF-32
> > 
> > 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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> Shouldn't the internal representation in Scribus be separate from the encoding used by the interface between python and Scribus? Python provides codecs for common encodings. https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/unicode.html <https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/unicode.html>  External formats like SLA files could remain UTF-8. What kinds of scripts would be broken?
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> William
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I agree, yes they should be.. 

Craig

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