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Re: Genx

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• Subject: Re: Genx
• From: Toni Uusitalo <toni.uusitalo@p...>
• Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 00:30:50 +0200
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At 23:35 21.1.2004, you wrote:
>Why not just do everything in UTF-8.  All this wchar_t, "asdfasdf"L 
>support, etc., is going to complicate the API.  Seems simpler to have the 
>basic API, and for those not working in UTF-8 (or its subset:), they only 
>have to remember a single consistent rule:  call "convert()" first.

Genx could be optionally compiled with libiconv support if other encodings 
than UTF-8 are required, libiconv could handle encodings for both input and 
output in that case. Having wchar_t support on systems like windows would 
be the most robust approach though.


with respect,
Toni Uusitalo

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