[Thinlet-development] Problems with enconding, maxlength and DTD

[Michael N. S. <mis...@ho...>]

Hi folks,

Besides some "comestic" changes we did for our project - enter triggers
action for any button, the cursor is drawn with 2 pixels instead of 1
etc. -, there is at least one issue with Thinlet right now and one feature
I'd like to implement in the core.

It's not possible to show Latin characters properly if they are part of a
XML document - and I'm pretty sure it aplies to lots of other charsets as
well -, since using a Reader without specifying an encoding uses the default
platform encoding, which may not be appropriate (that's the case for most
Linux distributions, for example). The right behaviour would be to use the
value of the xml encoding property when building the Reader. This attribute
is ignored right now and processing it before reading the rest of the
document isn't trivial. I intend to provide support for that if no one has a
patch already.

Apart from that, a key missing feature for widgets that accept text entry is
a maxlength attribute. Has anyone done it? Would it be ok to include it in
the main Thinlet?

A final issue: has the java.net DTD been updated to support the last changes
(resizable/sortable column headers, etc.)? If it's not even ready, I'd be
glad to update it, although I don't have commit permissions in java.net.

Regards,
Michael Nascimento Santos
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