Re: Pango, UTF-8 & Latin1

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Jason Maiorana wrote:
> > > > It may be sufficient for dia to only support utf-8. You generally
> dont
> > > > create dia files by hand, so you probably shouldnt care which
> encoding
> > > > they are in. 
> > >
> > > We need to support non-utf8 encodings for two reasons:  Backwards
> > > compatibility and diagrams created by other programs.  
> >
> > And one more: For other programs that want to read Dia files.  
>
> What I mean is that if dia only ever creates utf-8 files,
> that that is sufficient.

And that it will.

> And any encoding-translation done in
> dia is misplaced: libxml should be able to translate the file
> to utf-8 on read. I just dont think the encoding operations
> belong separately in every app that want to use XML.
> (plus its less error prone, imo)

Well, libxml2 doesn't seem to be doing it for Dia now.  I don't know what's
wrong with it.

-Lars

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