Re: [Parser-devel] Parser 0.6 has been released
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From: Jinesh K J <jin...@gm...> - 2006-11-03 13:09:27
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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. |