RE: WJed key bindings and utf-8

[SANGOI DINO <SANGOID@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John E. Davis
> Sent: mercoledì 27 aprile 2005 8.13
> Subject: Re: WJed key bindings and utf-8
> 
> SANGOI DINO <SANGOID@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >now another thing: I did an iconv module. I tried it under 
> > slsh, and
> >for some small tests seems to work.
> 
> I think that iconv is the way to go.  A general purpose iconv 
> module should also prove useful in other applications.  
> However, eventually I think that jed ought to have iconv 
> built-in if iconv solves the problem.
> Not all systems supported by jed have dynamic linking.

I agree, we should use iconv. As you say iconv may be useful also for other
applications (slrn comes to my mind), so why not add and iconv-like
interface to slang (both C api and interpreter)? At compile time, we can
choose between using an already installed iconv, or fallback to a dummy (or
simple hand written) version, useful if iconv is not installed or just
because of size concerns: iconv.dll is ~= 900K on windows.

> 
> [...]
> >+   MAKE_INTRINSIC_S("utf8_decode", utf8_decode, SLANG_VOID_TYPE),
> >+   MAKE_INTRINSIC_0("utf8_encode", utf8_encode, SLANG_STRING_TYPE),
> 
> With iconv, these are not necessary, right?
> 
Yes, these where an alternative way, but I said, I prefer using iconv.

Thanks,
							Dino


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