Re: More RTF importer bug fixes and RFC (UPDATED PATCH)

From: Hubert Figuiere <hfiguiere_at_teaser.fr>
Date: Sun Jun 05 2005 - 16:57:35 CEST

msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au wrote:

> Hub, please try to think outside the box a bit. As you can see from
> Roland's latest patch there are times when it makes sense to deal with
> 8-bit strings (not 7 bit strings). For these we need UT_String.
>
> Please stop saying we will get rid of UT_String. I won't allow it in any
> case.

8 bits sttring means NOTHING unless you specify an encoding, which
UT_String does not. Want to store random bytes, use UT_ByteBuf

We have been bitten too much by UT_String issues to allow it to happen
again.

Hub
Received on Sun Jun 5 16:57:57 2005

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