Am Sonntag, 3. September 2006 10:50 schrieb Michael Gerz: > Hi, > > as far as I understand, all occurrences of std::string are supposed to > be replaced by docstring sooner or later.
No. All occurrences of std::string that store document content are supposed to be replaced. There is no need to change stuff that will always be in ASCII, e.g. lfun names or LaTeX command names in mathed. > A simple grep shows about 8000 (!) occurrences of std::string. I wonder > whether we should apply a global search&replace and fix the shard > afterwards... I don't think that we should do that, because it will do unnecessary conversions that we have to undo afterwards. I think that doing the conversion in chunks is better. I already discovered encoding problems that way (e.g. we insert the contents of external files without knowing the encoding) and added a FIXME. This would not be discovered with search/replace conversion. I am currently working on streams for docstring. Once that infrastructure (and a few more functions in lstrings.h) is in place the actual conversion will be quite a bit of work, but not difficult. Georg
