Re: [Plplot-devel] Following up on the Cygwin and MinGW shared library success

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

On 2005-09-17 11:02-0700 hba...@ma... wrote:

> Sorry, its been a while since I thought about this issue. My recollection
is that the test for UTF8 input was whether or not x24 worked properly. If
that is correct, then this change enables UTF8 input on OSX.

Hi Hazen,

I am glad to hear example 24 worked for you with the CVS version of PLplot.
My understanding is that all our normal ascii string processing now goes
through utf8_to_ucs4 since normal ascii is a part (the simplest part) of
utf8.  However, example 24 extends the test of utf8_to_ucs4 to non-ascii
utf8 as well.

I hope some of you with non-English knowledge will stress PLplot with even
more extensive examples than x24.  Also, some malformed utf8 should be
included in these (private) tests to make sure our internal utf8_to_ucs4
code handles that situation correctly.

Alan
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