Re: Pango, UTF-8 & Latin1

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Jason Maiorana wrote:
> > I see the problem.  This is a very important bug, and I wish I knew
> more
> > about encodings and stuff so that I could fix it.  Make sure to submit
> a
> > bug report on it.  In fact, there should probably be several separate
> > reports: One that Dia doesn't assume that files without specific
> encoding
> > is latin1, one that it doesn't read latin1 encoding correctly (and
> probably
> > not others, either), and one about how to input non-ascii chars.
>
> 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. If you want to view/edit or print dia source code, then many apps
> (IE,Mozilla)
> exist that work fine for that. If you are writing scripts then there
> should be
> no difficulty in translating to utf-8, as there are many libraries
> available
> for that. If you always edit dia files from within dia, then it shouldnt
> be an
> issue whatsoever.

We need to support non-utf8 encodings for two reasons:  Backwards
compatibility and diagrams created by other programs.  And the problem of
inputting non-ascii chars still stands.

-Lars

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