Re: [wxperl-users] Unicode support

[Mattia B. <mb...@ds...>]

> >
> >
> >I can't really comment on the Unicode support. If you're using a Perl module
> >like Locale::Maketext::Lexicon, it might depend on your version of perl. But
> >did you know that you can use your gettext .po/.mo files with Wx::Locale?
> >There's a Wx::Locale demo in wxperl/demo/demo.pl.
> >
> Thanks Simon,
> 
> Hmm...that's very nice :) I'm inclined to think that since wxWindows 
> supports Unicode, poEdit (the translation tool built using wxWindows) 
> uses and supports Unicode, Wx::Locale uses the .po files directly and 
> Wx::Locale probably handles everything internally in wxWindows-native 
> stuff, Unicode should work that way...
> 
> It would be nice tho' to hear from someone actually using Unicode in 
> wxPerl...
  I would like to know, too...
...however, if you don't mind, you can get some advice from a non-user :-)

  wxWindows can be compiled in "Unicode" and "non-Unicode" mode.
Unicode-mode is currently supported only under Windows NT/2K/XP[1]; 2.4.0
will hopefully support Unicode-mode with GTK 2, too.
In Unicode-mode wxWindows manipulates Unicode strings internally
(UCS-2 under Win32, whatever the system supports under *NIX), and uses
Unicode-aware system calls where appropriate.

  In non-Unicode mode strings are stored internally in whatever the system
encoding is.

  Now let's talk about wxPerl; wxPerl compiles in Unicode-mode (modulo
a couple small errors in 0.12; 0.11 should be fine (if you disable stc & xrc));
and when in Unicode mode it should fully support passing Unicode strings to
wxPerl[wxWindows] methods.

  In non-Unicode mode, you probably need to use Encode.pm to encode Unicode
string in system encoding. But since I do not have (easy) access to anything
but Italian Windows 2000, I can't know for sure.

HTH, at least a bit
Mattia

[1] there is a thing from MS, called "Microsoft Layer for Unicode"
    (unicows.dll), that emulates Unicode system calls under Win95/98/ME,
    and calls "true" Unicode calls under NT/2K/XP; poEdit is compiled that
    way; I don't know if wxPerl compiles against unicows.dll; this can be used
    to provide a single binary that works in Unicode-mode in NT/2K/XP,
    and pseudo-Unicode under 95/98/ME.