Am Donnerstag, 26. Oktober 2006 18:05 schrieb Jean-Marc Lasgouttes: > Can't we just change the encoding of the output stream on the fly > (with a method, not only in the constructor)?
That was my first idea, but it turned out to be rather difficult. Here is how I came to the current solution: codecvt facets are only used by file streams -> OK, maybe we could use file streams and not generic streams in the latex() methods? No, that does not work, we use them at several places to write to string streams. Next try: Maybe we could do something else than codecvt in our streams, and add a setEncoding() method? That does not work unless we rebuild the functionality of file and string streams, since both odocfstream and odocstringstream inherit from std::basic_ostream<docstring> and we can neither add a method to that class nor change the inheritance of the file and string streams. What might be possible is to encapsulate the real file and string streams in our own version, and use a homemade streambuf that would do the encoding conversion and then forward to the real stream. That would probably work, but would require far more code and a good understanding of stream buffers to get it right. I simply don't have the time at the moment to investigate this, and what I implemented works. If somebody does not like it because it is a hack then feel free to do it correctly. Georg
