Re: [Parser-devel] Parser 0.6 has been released

[Jinesh K J <jin...@gm...>]

On 10/27/06, Noam Postavsky <npo...@uw...> wrote:
> "Jinesh K J" <jin...@gm...> writes:
>
> > Hi Noam,
> >
> > I'm happy to inform you that parser version 0.6 has been released.
> > BTW, I was thinking about adding unicode support for library. Do you
> > think it is possible?
>
> Not sure what you mean by unicode support exactly. Write now the
> library will work fine, as far as I can tell, if the .conf file has
> some multilingual stuff, as long as then encoding is utf-8. In utf-8
> the encodings for =, [, ], ', and " remain the same as ascii, and
> there are no 0x00 bytes(NULL) in any normal printable characters. For
> any other characters it doesn't matter since the library only operates
> on the bytes. I guess it might not work for other encodings
> though. Perhaps the library doesn't need to support other encodings
> though, we could simply require programs to convert input to utf-8
> using iconv (http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/) for instance.
>

hi,

I was out of town for the past week, sorry for the delayed reply. Yes,
I found your updates in test.conf. I think UTF-8 support is working
sufficiently well - no issues that I can find.

BTW, do you think having a configuration file editor will be an added
advantage? I was thinking about creating a curses/gtk/qt based UI
using this library. What do you think?

Jinesh.