[Pmplib-devel] Keep libucs2 (and discarding branches/branch_0.12)

[nyaochi <ny...@ny...>]

Hi,

(I hope this list works well, but send a CC to Martin just in case...)

I tried to replace ucs2char_t with wchar_t in branches/branch_0.12 last
week. The work itself was half done, but I realized that UCS-2 string
manupulation is required in more places than I've estimated. libucs2 is
necessary for:
- libpmp_portalplayer1 as a media database employs UCS-2 encoding
- libpmp_iriverplus2 as a media database employs UCS-2 encoding
- libgmi as WMA and WAV files employs UCS-2 encoding
- libplaylist as SpiderMonkey seems to employ UCS-2 (or UTF-16) for
representing UNICODE characters (even in POSIX environments)

Even if we replace ucs2char_t with wchar_t, the dependency to libucs2
will remain over the libraries after all.

I understand that UCS-2 is just an evil for POSIX environments, but I'd
like to keep ucs2char_t as the (unified) default character encoding in
PMPlib project. So I'd like to withdraw the plan to replace ucs2char_t
and branches/branch_0.12. I hope you won't mind this decision.

Thanks,
Nyaochi