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RE: [wxperl-users] Unicode support

[Simon F. <sim...@bb...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jouke Visser [mailto:jo...@pv...]
> Subject: [wxperl-users] Unicode support
> 
> I wondered in what sense wxPerl supports Unicode. I have written a 
> program I want to make as multi-lingual as possible, and to do so I'm 
> using Locale::Maketext::Lexicon to translate all text my 
> program uses, 
> for menus, dialog boxes etc.

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.
 
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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.

Re: [wxperl-users] Unicode support

[Jouke V. <jo...@pv...>]

>
>
>   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.
>
That leaves me with only one question: I'm using wxPerl 0.12 (by means 
of the pre-compiled ppm you supply on the wxperl.sf.net download page). 
Is that compiled in Unicode mode? Or should I revert to 0.11?

Regards,

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Re[2]: [wxperl-users] Unicode support

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

On Fri, 25 Oct 2002 10:02:33 +0200 Jouke Visser <jo...@pv...> wrote:

> >
> >
> >   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.
> >
> That leaves me with only one question: I'm using wxPerl 0.12 (by means 
> of the pre-compiled ppm you supply on the wxperl.sf.net download page). 
> Is that compiled in Unicode mode? Or should I revert to 0.11?
I will upload an unicode-capable snapshot today.
Note that this will only work in Windows NT/2k/XP.

Regards
Mattia

Re: [wxperl-users] Unicode support

[Jouke V. <jo...@pv...>]

>
>
>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...

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