[OGo-Developer] Re: libFoundation question

[Helge Hess]

On Oct 6, 2006, at 07:22, G. Gibson wrote:
> I was wondering: what would it take to add unicode support to  
> libFoundation?

I think to have a basic implementation its mostly changing  
NSMutableString to unichar and possibly fixing some -cString usages.  
Shouldn't be too hard. Fixing bugs might be some work.

A full Unicode implementation is quite hard (Unicode safe sorting  
etc), but usually not required.

> It just seems odd in this day and age to have a base lib that does  
> *not* actually support this text encoding standard.

Yes, for SOPE/OGo we more or less planned to use gnustep-base once  
its a viable basis. But this is also taking time ...

BTW: libFoundation does support Unicode encoding, that is, it can  
load UCS2 and UTF8 encoded files. And in fact the primary API uses  
UTF16. But the internal implementation can't (always) store unicode  
chars above Latin1.

> Are there any murmurings in this direction?

Not really. We've added immutable Unicode strings a while back but  
this only helps with displaying Unicode stuff (like Korean/Chinese  
emails in OGo webmail).

Greets,
   Helge
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