On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 11:52:10AM -0500, Kuba Ober wrote:
> No doubt when we encounter some extraterrestrial civilization we may need many
> more characters than 64k (say 1/2 of that if we consider underutilized pages)
I hear peoplpe are already worried about this.
> then John would be happy since he wouldn't have to worry about basic_string
> to QString conversions being slow (if it matters at all).
It doesn't actually (well not much)
> Another option would be to copy QString's sources from Qt, rename the class
> name to lyxstring, and just use that lyx-wide instead of std::basic_string.
Over my dead body :))
> I'm worried about that. The question is whether 1.3.0's Qt frontentd is of any
> use as it is right now
It certainly is.
> Definitely `the LANG implies encoding' thing is very bad as it makes no sense
> in light of how X passes keysyms (they are language-independent and depend on
> modmap/keyboard only!) to the apps.
All we need is somebody to come along with some encoding-fu (you ?) who
knows how to automatically convert QChar into the right 8-bit encoding !
Kornel's problems are essentially unrelated. I think I have some idea
what's happening, but I need to ruminate. Remote debugging is a PITA
regards
john
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