Re: [dev] [sbase][RFC] Add a simplistic version of tr

From: sin <sin_AT_2f30.org>
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2013 17:45:02 +0000

On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 05:20:08PM +0100, Silvan Jegen wrote:
> So I guess the question boils down to whether you would rather use
> libutf or the standardized, POSIX-locale-dependent wchar.h functions for
> the UTF-8 conversion. I see one advantage of the wchar.h functions:
> If we use them we could avoid adding an external dependency to
> sbase. The disadvantage is the fact that we would depend on the
> whole posix-locale-thing which seems unnecessarily complicated in
> places.

If we did go with libutf8 I-d expect it to be embedded in sbase.
I am not very faimilar with libutf8 nor with the wchar.h wizardry
so I can't make the call myself.

bye,
sin
Received on Tue Dec 24 2013 - 18:45:02 CET