[sword-devel] proposal for changes in locale system

[Martin Gruner]

Just to let you know: Troy and I talked about it in the chat. We'll go for 
option 4 for now, so that UTF-8 locales can be added after I verified that 
UTF-8 will work with Sword internally. Existing locales will remain, and all 
will get an encoding line. At some point in future we might use only 
UTF-8.... This way older apps won't break.

I'll give it a try, if somebody wants to help, just speak up.

mg

Am Dienstag, 13. Januar 2004 16:37 schrieb Martin Gruner:
> Hey all,
>
> now that 1.5.7 is released, I'd like to propose a change to the locale
> system.
>
> It seems that in BibleTime we can only use the locales which are encoded in
> the local 8bit encoding of the user. Selecting others won't work, as well
> as the windows specific locales (cp*).
>
> There are different possible approaches to this situation:
>
> 1. Change nothing. Rremains broken. ;)
> 2. Add UTF-8 locales for each language (Encoding= line in config file).
> Apps can then select which locale file (local or UTF-8) to use. No overhead
> in apps, maintenance overhead in Sword.
> 3. Convert everything to UTF-8. Apps then need to convert to local, if
> necessary. Small overhead in apps.
> 4. Add Encoding= line to all locale files and have apps convert strings to
> UTF-8 themselves, if necessary. Larger overhead in apps.
>
> I'd vote for number 3, but not sure if that is a possibility for Windows
> based programs. Any other suggestions/corrections? I'd like to volunteer
> for this kind of task (conversion etc.), in case I should be able to do it.
> Looking forward to hear what you think.
>
> Martin
>
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