Re: [Adonthell-general] UTF-8 Plan

[Alexandre Courbot]

> Actually ... yes :). Stupid me! As we will always work with English
> string up to the point where gettext is called, there is not that much
> to be changed. Still, the dialogue engine for example stores the string
> after translation, so it needs some changes too. The same might be true
> for the text bubble.

Hum, UTF-8 strings are returned by gettext as char *, so that's no
problem I think. I can't think of any change that would be needed to the
dialog system.

> > The only part that would need UTF-8 support - that is, the only part
> > that displays text - would be the Window system. 0.3 one simply can't.
> > I guess you'd be better inspired to work on the new one in the 0.4
> > branch, although there is no much yet - and Joel already planned to
> > support UTF-8 with it.
> 
> Really? That's cool. But in that case, I guess it's not really worth to
> add unicode support to the old window system. However, we might consider
> porting the new window (and input) system back to 0.3. Gamepad support
> for Waste's Edge will be a nice enhancement and a 0.3.4 release would
> help us stay in the news.

Right. The only thing that prevented from porting the new input system
is the old window system, that badly relies on the old input system. But
once the new GUI works, I'm all for a backport.

Alex.
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