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
