Re: [Libaps-general] Printer name selection

[Brian P. <br...@co...>]

Hi Waldo,

> E.g. with a printcap entry like:
>
> lp|ap|arpa|ucbarpa|LA-180 DecWriter III:\
>
> I get "ap" as name. I rather would be able to show "LA-180 DecWriter III" to
> the user.

Coincidentally, this is something that I've been working on today. The heuristic
that I'm using is, when a printcap entry has multiple alias names, to prefer the
first one that contains a space character as the primary name for that printer.
Do you think this rule of thumb will cover most situations? The alternative that
I thought of was to select the longest of the names.

> Slightly related, all strings are represented as "const char *". Assuming
> that in some cases these strings are user defined it would be usefull to
> define in the API what the character encoding of such a string is supposed to
> be. utf8 seems a good candidate to me.

I can certainly see the use in this. I have to admit that I am not personally an
expert in different character encodings nor localization/globalization issues in
general. Can you give me more information on what this character set is, and what
alternatives we could potentially specify?

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Brian Pirie
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