Re: Commit: string classes rearranged

From: Dom Lachowicz (domlachowicz@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Jan 03 2003 - 16:17:57 EST

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    I'll re-enable the UCS2 methods on the UCS4 and UTF8
    string classes and simply remove the UCS2 string class
    and other silly ucs2 functions.

    Dom

    --- William Lachance <william.lachance@sympatico.ca>
    wrote:
    > On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 00:12, Andrew Dunbar wrote:
    >
    > > Disabled UCS-2 string class since they've been
    > > superceded by UCS-4.
    > > The only place they were used was in the
    > Barbarisms
    > > code and there it was being used in a very
    > strange
    > > way.
    > > I couldn't test my change as I couldn't find the
    > XML
    > > file needed.
    > > To re-enable UCS-2 support, define
    > > ENABLE_UCS2_STRINGS.
    >
    > Just to followup on Marc's mail:
    >
    > libwpd2 (the library for reading/writing WordPerfect
    > documents) uses
    > UCS2 internally. I made this choice because:
    >
    > 1. OO.o and (AFAIK) KWord use UCS2 internally. There
    > isn't AFAIK an easy
    > way of converting from UCS4->UCS2 in OO.o.
    > 2. AbiWord provides a robust way of doing the
    > conversion from UCS2->UCS4
    > (or at least it used to).
    > 3. WordPerfect's extended character set is a subset
    > of UCS2.
    >
    > --
    > William Lachance <william.lachance@sympatico.ca>
    >

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