Re: [B2-devel] some questions and a small patch

[[rSu]G-LiTe <g-...@cl...>]

Christian Bauer wrote:

>Hi!
>
>On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 08:52:30PM +0200, [rSu]G-LiTe wrote:
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>>[Mac <-> Unix text clipboard]
>>The thing is, I have no idea which characters actually differ between
>>the charsets.
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>The MacOS "Roman" text encoding is described in
>  http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/APPLE/ROMAN.TXT
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>For B2, I substituted some similar looking characters for those not in
>the ISO 8859-1 set. E.g. 0xA0 "dagger" gets translated to a '+'.
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I'll look into it.

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>>[...] I can't really turn it around because some mac characters seem to
>>have multiple iso equalevants.
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>It's rather that some Mac characters have no ISO equivalents...
>
>The clipboard code in B2 should be completely rewritten some day. It should
>work in both directions, perhaps use Unicode internally for text conversion,
>and clip_unix.cpp still uses the obsolete X cut buffers.
>
>The problem is that I rarely use this stuff (in fact, I don't use it at
>all, I think...), so my motivation is a little low. A perfect 3rd-party
>opportunity. :-)
>
hehe, I'll try that but it'll ofcourse print multiple weird characters 
on the console or any other non-unicode app if it's a special 
character... But I don't think that matters as normally we wouldn't be 
able to print it at all.

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>>I attached a small audio patch [...]
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>Cool. Thanks! :-)
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np

>Bye,
>Christian
>
>P.S.: Please don't send your mail as HTML-only messages. mutt doesn't
>  display them, and I usually delete them without looking any further
>  because they are spam in >99.9% of all cases.
>
got that, changed mozilla settings, should be okay now :)

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