Re: [Audacity-devel] non-ascii labels

[Dominic M. <do...@au...>]

On Aug 21, 2006, at 1:55 PM, Leland wrote:
>> After rereading what I just wrote, it occured to me that I am
>> assuming that you are using an xml library to do the xml
>> parsing.  But maybe Audacity does it's own (minimal) xml
>> parsing and doesn't understand encodings?
>>
> Yes, we are using expat and it only support a few encodings.  The  
> ones we'd
> use are UTF-8 and/or UTF-16.

I think I understand better now.  Expat works best with utf-8, but  
we're trying to write a local encoding to the file.  Perhaps the  
solution would be to use the standard wx routines to convert from  
[whatever the local encoding is] to utf-8 when writing labels, and  
from utf-8 back to [the local encoding] when reading them.  Labels  
are one of the few areas where this matters, so at least for now we  
don't have to worry about doing this all over the code.

- Dominic