Re: [Cppunit-devel] Unicode

[Michael A. <ch...@mu...>]

You forgot one thing:

Previously the standard library method ' const char* =
std::exception::what()' was used, but as you can see it can only return =
a single byte charactar string, not unicode (a designflaw if you ask =
me). I have therefore added a method '_tstring Exception::uwhat()', to =
return exception strings in unicode.

Enjoy.

    Michael Arnoldus

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From: "Baptiste Lepilleur" <bl...@cl...>
To: "Cpp Unit Develpment Mailing List" =
<cpp...@li...>
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 11:33 PM
Subject: [Cppunit-devel] Unicode


> Michael Arnoldus gracefuly sent me a unicode version of CppUnitW 1.2.
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> The change required to add unicode support in cppunit are:
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> * having alias to std::string or std::wstring depending on weither we =
are
> compiling for unicode or not. This also apply to ostrstream, cerr, and =
cout.
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> Michael did it that as follow:
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> #ifdef _UNICODE
> #define _tstring wstring
> #else
> #define _tstring string
> #endif
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> This could probably be done using typedef and creating string in =
CppUnit
> namespace too:
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> #ifdef _UNICODE
> typedef std::wstring string
> #else
> typedef std::string string
> #endif
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> * having a macro _T which make the specified string unicode when =
needed:
>   std::_tstring( _T( "Unknown" ) )
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> * adding a function ustring( const char *) to estring.h to construct a
> unicode string from a const char *string.
>   This one is a problem for portability. Mapping from "char *" to =
unicode is
> done using WIN32 API.
>   So how is that done on unix. Is there a single API for all Unix to =
do the
> mapping ? (I know that QT support unicode and is portable, but not how
> difficult it is to achieve on Unix)
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> * adding new configuration to projects setting for VC++
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> (Michael let me know if I forgot something)
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> Note for Unix developper:
> The _t thingy is a win32 idiom. We have a tchar.h header which =
provides all
> string function with such a prefix, aliasing to either single byte =
character
> string or unicode character string function depending on _UNICODE =
symbol.
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> Is there such an idiom for Unix ?
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> Here is the "Unicode TODO" list that I can see for now:
> - make a new header file which contains all stuffs relating to unicode
> (macros, typedef...)
> - replace character dependent object used in cppunit with those =
defined in
> the previous header
> - add the ustring function.
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> I'm can do all those stuffs but we need to define the specific (header =
file
> name, define/typedef, alias name, _T name...).
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> Baptiste.
> ---
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> Author of The Text Reformatter, a tool for fanfiction readers and =
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